2006 Digampathana bombing

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2006 Digampathana truck bombing
Location	Digampathana, North Central Province, Sri Lanka
Date	16 October 2006
Attack type	suicide truck bombing
Deaths	at least 101-112 (including bomber)
Injured	at least 150
Perpetrator(s)	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

The 2006 Digampathana truck bombing, also known as Habarana massacre,^[1] was a suicide bombing carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam against a convoy of 15 military buses on 16 October 2006 at Digampathana, near the towns of Dambulla and Habarana, in Sri Lanka. The buses were carrying more than 200 (possibly 340^[2]) sailors from Trincomalee who were going on leave.^[3]

The bombing killed between 92 and 103 sailors and wounded more than 150 people, including over 100 sailors.^[4] The bombing also killed a number of civilians, including eight employees of the Sri Lankan military,^[3] and wounded many passers-by and roadside traders.^[2] The suicide bombing was the deadliest in Sri Lanka since the bombing of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka on 31 January 1996 (which killed 90 and injured 1,400) and followed intense fighting in the Jaffna Peninsula that left 133 soldiers^[5] and up to 200 LTTE fighters dead.^[6] The attack was followed by government air strikes on LTTE territory, although the military claimed they were in response to an artillery attack and not the suicide bombing.^[7]