Sri Lankan lawmakers brawl over presidential bomb allegations

Rival politicians have brawled on the floor of the Sri Lankan Parliament amid bizarre claims that the president had carried a bomb into a cabinet meeting.

Rival politicians have brawled on the floor of the Sri Lankan Parliament amid bizarre claims that the president had carried a bomb into a cabinet meeting.

Scuffling broke out when opposition members from President Chandrika Kumaratunga's Peoples' Alliance party tried to grab the ceremonial mace in the legislature.

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