Mar 10 - At least ten people have been killed and 35 injured - one of them a government minister - in a suspected suicide bomb attack in Sri Lanka.
The blast happened outside a mosque in Godapitiya, about 160 km (99 miles) south of the capital Colombo, during a national Muslim festival to celebrate the birthday of the prophet Mohammed.
Mahinda Wijesekara, Sri Lanka's post and telecommunications minister, and the former chief minister of the southern province H.G. Sirisena were among those wounded.
Sonia Legg reports.
Children sit near the scene where a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber attacked in the morning, outside a mosque in Akuressa March 10, 2009. A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed ...
