Prominent Suicide Attacks By LTTE

25 April 2006: Ten Sri Lankan soldiers and civilians are killed while the Army chief Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka is critically
injured when a LTTE suicide bomber disguised as a pregnant woman blows herself up inside the army headquarters in
Colombo. This is the first suicide bombing in the Sri Lankan capital since July 2004, and the biggest attack blamed on
the Tamil Tigers since they signed a truce with the government in 2002.

26 March 2006: Six LTTE suicide cadres blow themselves up with their trawler sinking a naval ship, wounding 11
sailors in Kuthiraimalai off Kalpitiya. Eight missing sailors are believed to have been killed.

25 March 2006: Six LTTE cadres and eight sailors are killed, when a boat heading to northern Sri Lanka and carrying LTTE cadres exploded off the northwest coast.

7 January 2005: Fifteen Sri Lankan Navy personnel are killed in a suspected suicide attack by the LTTE on a navy gunboat outside the Trincomalee naval harbour in Trincomalee District.

7 July 2004: Five police officers are killed and eleven are injured by a LTTE female suicide bomber inside the Colpetty
police station in Colombo. The woman was reported to be loitering in front of the office of Minister Douglas Devananda,
which is situated near the police station. On suspicion the police had taken her to the police station for questioning
where the woman blew herself up.

15 November 2001: A LTTE suicide bomber detonates a powerful bomb killing three soldiers in Batticaloa town.

30 October 2001: Five LTTE suicide boats attack an oil tanker carrying over 450 metric tonnes of fuel to the Jaffna
peninsula, 12 nautical miles North of Point Pedro.

29 October 2001: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake escapes an assassination attempt when police
intercepts a would-be suicide bomber who detonated explosives strapped to his body, killing himself and five others in
Colombo.

24 July 2001: Tiger rebels stage a devastating suicide attack on Colombo's Bandaranaike International Airport- the only
international airport in Sri Lanka, leaving 12 people dead and destroying 13 military and civilian aircrafts and paralysing
the island's airlinks with the rest of the world.

2 October 2000: A suicide bomber detonates himself killing 23 people, including Muslim candidate M. Baithullah
contesting the October 10 parliamentary elections.

5 January 2000: At least 12 people are killed and 24 wounded when a woman suicide bomber detonates explosives
strapped to her body outside the office of prime minister Sirima Bandaranaike in Colombo.

18 December 1999: President Chandrika Kumaratunga is wounded and 38 are killed in two separate attacks on
election rallies.

25 January 1998: Suicide bombers devastate the country's holiest Buddhist shrine, the Sri Dalada Maligawa temple, in
the town of Kandy, killing 16.

15 October 1997: Suicide bombers drive a truck packed with a large quantity of explosives and devastate the twin tower
World Trade Centre building in Colombo, killing 18.

31 January 1996: A suicide bomber drives a truck packed with explosives and devastates the Central Bank, killing 91
and wounding 1,400 in Colombo.

24 October 1994: Opposition leader Gamini Dissanayake and 56 others are killed by a suicide bomber in Colombo.

1 May 1993: President Ranasinghe Premadasa and 23 others are killed by a suicide bomber in Colombo.

21 May 1991: Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assasinated a LTTE suicide bomber at anelection rally in
Sriperambudur, Tamil Nadu.

2 March 1991: Defence minister Ranjan Wijeratne is among 19 people killed when a car bomb is detonated in
Colombo.

5 July 1987: The LTTE carries out its first suicide bombing, killing 40 troops at the Nelliyady army camp in the north of
the country.