President Chandrika Kumaratunga barely survives an assassination attempt by the LTTE in Colombo

Quand

18 déc. 1999

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Événement

Coordonnées

6.92° N, 79.86° E

Description

President Chandrika Kumaratunga barely survives an assassination attempt by the LTTE in Colombo.

Placé à : coordinates of the event it links, Attempted assassination of Chandrika Kumaratunga.

1999 attempted murder of 5th President of Sri Lanka

On December 18, 1999, the 5th President of Sri Lanka, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, was wounded in a coordinated bomb blast that was attempting to take her life. Kumaratunga had been president for one-term, and was campaigning for her second term in office in the 1999 presidential election.

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