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The Colombo central bus station bombing.

Incident Details
 
Name The Colombo central bus station bombing.
Incident Date 1987-04-21
 
Description
The Colombo central bus station bombing was a car bombing carried out on April 21, 1987, in Pettah, Colombo, Sri Lanka. The 80-pound (36 kg) bomb killed 113 people, and 200 others were injured. The explosion left a 10-foot (3 m) crater in the ground. The bombing, specifically chosen to occur at a particular time of day to maximize casualties, produced an enormous explosion that could be heard ten miles away. Six buses were caught in the attack, leading to numerous passengers dying in the ensuing fires as their buses burned. Heavy rainfall delayed rescue workers from reaching the scene promptly. Heaps of victims, including elderly people and children, lay on the ground in agony before they were attended to by authorities.
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