A female suicide bomber disguised as an office worker blew herself up in the heart of Colombo today, killing one person in an apparent attempt to assassinate a Sri Lankan government minister, the military said.

An international aid group said today it found the bodies of two more of its workers after discovering 15 others killed last week in Sri Lanka’s northeast, as a car bomb explosion outside a girls’ school left at least two people dead.

A KEY member of a Tamil political party opposed to the Tamil Tiger rebels was shot dead yesterday on a busy street in Sri Lanka's capital.