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* High power pressure bomb found in Sri Lanka police training center in Mahiyangana
Friday, February 27, 2009, 14:30 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.

Feb 27, Mahiyangana: Sri Lanka police found a high power pressure bomb near the training school of Police Special Task Force (STF) in Mahiyangana this afternoon.

Police spokesman SSP Ranjith Gunasekara said a bomb was found at about 1:30 this afternoon on civilian information.

According to STF sources the pressure bomb was weighing nearly 14 kilograms. Police Special Task Forces defused it later.

Mahiyangana police is conducting further investigations.

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