Seven people killed in Sri Lanka blast

COLOMBO: At least seven people were killed and 39 others wounded in a powerful roadside blast on Monday near a key military base just outside Sri Lanka's capital, hospital sources said.   

Doctors at the Colombo South hospital said 34 people were being treated there while five more were in two neighbouring hospitals. A total of seven civilians were killed, doctors said.   

Among those wounded were seven commandos of the police Special Task Force whose truck was targeted in the roadside bombing blamed by the government on Tamil Tiger guerrillas.