Colombo, June 24: At least nine people have been wounded after a bomb detonated in a commercial area of Sri Lanka’s capital city of Colombo, police say.
According to police spokesman Prishantha Jayakody, the explosion occurred in the Pettah area of the city on Thursday.
A hospital spokesman announced that nine people were transported to the National Hospital Colombo with minor injuries.
Meanwhile, police ruled out that Tamil rebels were behind the attack.
“The incident was probably due to a personnel vendetta,” the police spokesman was quoted as saying by AFP.
A hand grenade or improvised explosive device might have caused the blast which was the first explosion in the center of Colombo since government troops defeated Tamil Tiger rebels in May last year after decades of bloody civil war.
The Pettah area is known for clashes among rival business interests and underworld gangs.
——–Agencies