COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan government official said Tuesday it was uncertain who was behind an attack in Pakistan on the island's national cricket team, but said Islamabad has promised the perpetrators will be found. "We are uncertain as to who perpetrated this attack," Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona told foreign news agency."I have heard the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) mentioned on the airwaves. There is considerable speculation, but we will await the outcome of the investigation before we comment," he said. "We are reassured that Pakistan authorities are conducting a probe to arrest the assailants and bring them to justice."
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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