Pakistani police say they have made their first arrest in the attack on Sri Lanka’s cricket team in the eastern city of Lahore in March.

A bomb ripped through a packed bus in Sri Lanka today, killing 23 people as the government officially withdrew from a ceasefire with Tamil Tiger rebels.

INTERNATIONAL truce monitors have warned it is likely hundreds of civilians have been killed so far this month in Sri Lanka’s worst violence since a 2002 ceasefire.

Tamil Tiger rebels have shelled Sri Lanka army positions and launched a deadly raid on a breakaway faction they say is backed by the Sri Lankan government, while a Tamil civilian was shot dead, officials said, heightening fears of a return to civil war.