Suicide attack on Sri Lanka military convoy kills 92 | Top News | Reuters.com

Suicide attack on Sri Lanka military convoy kills 92 | Top News | Reuters.com: "COLOMBO (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels rammed a truck loaded with explosives into a Sri Lankan convoy carrying navy sailors on Monday, killing at least 92 people and deepening pessimism over this month's planned peace talks.

The attack near the town of Habarana, about 190 km (120 miles) northeast of the capital Colombo, was one of the worst suicide bombings in the troubled Indian Ocean island.

It came at the start of a week of hectic international diplomacy aimed at ending a rash of fighting between the military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ahead of planned peace talks in Geneva on October 28-29.

The dead were mostly navy sailors going home on vacation, but some civilians in the area were also killed, military officers at Colombo's media center for national security said. More than 100 people were wounded.

'This inhuman act is clear revenge by the terrorists on the navy which inflicted successive defeats on the LTTE against their attempts to smuggle arms and explosives in the recent past,' the center said in a statement." Read complete post here.