Highways minister is among those killed in suicide attack outside Colombo.
March 1991: Ranjan Wijeratne, Sri Lanka’s defence minister, is among 19 killed in a car bomb attack in Colombo
May 1991: Rajiv Gandhi, a former Indian prime minister, is killed in southern India by a suspected female LTTE suicide bomber during an election rally
May 1993: Ranasinghe Premadasa, Sri Lanka’s president, is among 24 killed by a suicide bomber during a May Day march
December 1999: Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka’s president, is injured in a bomb attack in Colombo
June 2000: C V Gunaratne, industrial development minister, is killed in a suicide bomb blast in Colombo
August 2005: Lakshman Kadirgamar, foreign minister, is shot dead at his home in Colombo by a suspected LTTE sniper
January 2008: D M Dassanayake, nation building minister, is killed by a roadside bomb just outside Colombo
Minelle Fernandez, reporting for Al Jazeera from Colombo, said Fernandopulle was a well established figure in the Sri Lankan government.
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