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Gunmen fire on buses carrying voters
COLOMBO, Nov 16, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Gunmen opened fire on a convoy of buses
carrying minority Muslim voters in northwest Sri Lanka on Saturday hours
before polling in presidential elections got under way, police said.
There were no immediate reports of casualties, but a police official said
the attackers had burnt tyres on the road and set up makeshift road blocks to
ambush the convoy of over 100 buses.
“The gunmen opened fire and also pelted stones,” a police official in
Tantirimale, 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of Colombo said. “At least two
buses were hit, but we have no reports of casualties.”
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