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Tamil rebel jailed for bomb attack in Sri Lanka

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-10-27 17:23

COLOMBO -- A Sri Lankan court Wednesday handed a 30 year prison term with hard labor for a Tamil rebel who attempted to kill the former President Chandrika Kumaratunga.

The suspect Sathyavelu Ilangeswaran was found guilty on 28 counts for the December 1999 suicide bomb attack which killed 28 people including the female suicide bomber and caused injuries to 80 others.

Kumaratunga was about to leave the last campaign rally held in Colombo on her second presidential bid when the Tamil Tigers attacked her. Although she survived she was made to suffer a severe eye injury.

Ilangeswaran was charged with masterminding the assassination plot.