Booby-trapped bra may have triggered suicide blast

[hightime]

A female suicide bomber who set off a blast that killed herself and four police officers in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo may have been wearing a "bra bomb", a police investigator said.

The device exploded as the attacker, who appeared to be in her late 20s, was being searched by two female constables at a police station after being detained by guards of a government minister.

Two constables who escaped with injuries have said the woman had shown them her bare midriff to indicate she was not wearing an explosives-filled jacket usually worn by suicide bombers, inspector Palitha Siriwardena said yesterday.

"This points to the possibility that she was wearing a bra that had explosives in it," said Inspector Siriwardena, who is the chief inspector of the Kollupitiya police station where the blast occurred.

http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2004/07/13/1089694363909.html

[olddem43]

1. The old stuffed bra trick again

haven't seen that since high school.

[hightime]

2. The 4 dead are laughing ...can't you hear them??

This subject was mentioned here in LBN about 4 months ago and everyone had a real good laugh about it. It doesn't seem so funny now.

Connect the dots.

[bpilgrim]

5. yeah...

they're all saying 'wrong forum'

;->

peace

[hightime]

7. Sri Lankan capital Colombo ...is that I/P also?

Why are you stalking me?

Go visit my post about Kashmir or even DeBeers before saying ALL my recent posts are in the wrong forum please. Thanks.

[bpilgrim]

8. D'oh!

my bad :hi:

couldn't help notice your recent pattern ;->

peace

[hightime]

9. No prob...I'm just hungry and waiting for dinner to finish.

You, figuratively, got between a hungry animal and his food. lol

[bpilgrim]

10. likewise

lol

peace

[toopers]

3. And I had just learned how to work the snap!

[CO Liberal]

4. Couldn't They Come Up With a Better Headline?

:shrug:

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Guess it wasn't a Playtex "Living Bra" . . .