<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">InSri Lanka, 19 people including 12 defense personnel were injured today in anexplosion on a bus in the central town of Diyathalawa. Law and Order MinisterSagala Ratnayake said that initial investigations revealed that a grenadereportedly kept in a passenger bag caused the explosion.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thoseinjured included seven army men, five Air force personnel and seven civilians.Army spokesman Sumith Atapattu said, the passenger bus was travelling fromJaffna to Diyathalawa, which has one of the main military training centres. </span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Hesaid, an investigation was under way. The police said, the bus was heavilydamaged and the injured were taken to the Diyathalawa Hospital. There have beenno targeted attacks on the military in Sri Lanka since the three-decade civilwar ended in 2009.</span></p>