COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNN) - A Sri Lankan government minister narrowly escaped injury Thursday when a suicide bomber in a car detonated explosives, police said.
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By Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO (Reuters) - A suicide bomber attacked a convoy ferrying Sri Lanka's agriculture minister through a suburb of the capital on Thursday, killing one person and wounding at least five including his deputy, officials said.
The military said the minister was unharmed in the second blast targeting a prominent figure this week, after one on Monday killed a retired general who had entered politics and 27 others.
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COLOMBO (AFP) � At least one person was killed in a blast near the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Thursday that police described as a suspected suicide

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