Curfew in Lankan town after grenade attack on bus

The Sri Lankan government ordered a curfew yesterday in the eastern port city of Trincomalee after one person was killed in a grenade attack on a bus that defied a strike call by rebel sympathisers, police said.

Unidentified attackers lobbed a grenade at a bus in Trincomalee, 260km northeast of Colombo that killed one person and injured three others, a police official said.

He said police suspected that Monday's strike was called by a front organisation of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which held ceremonies Saturday to honour nearly 17,800 supporters that have died in Sri Lanka's decades old civil war. The commemorations drew the ire of pro-government forces, police said.