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Colombo: Sri Lanka's police have arrested 52 suspects in twin bus bombings that killed 23 passengers and wounded dozens, the military said on Saturday.
Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said 51 suspects were picked up around Moratuwa, a suburb of Colombo where a roadside bomb ripped through a bus on Friday, killing 21 passengers.
Another suspect was arrested in Kandy, a central district where a second blast tore through another bus the same day, killing two passengers, he said.
Authorities blame ethnic Tamil rebels for the blasts, which also wounded 67 others.
Sri Lanka's civil war has intensified recently as government troops try to oust the rebels from territory they hold in the north.
The Tamil Tiger rebels have responded by stepping up bomb attacks that have shaken the south, home to Sri Lanka's ethnic Sinhalese majority.
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