Sri Lanka police find Tamil Tiger-style explosives

Police found an explosives-packed suicide jacket of the type used by Tamil Tiger rebels and two powerful land mines in a fertiliser bag abandoned in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo today, officers said.

The two Claymore mines, which can be detonated by remote control, weighed eight kilograms (17.6lb) each and could have caused massive damage, area police chief Anuradha Mahindasiri told reporters.