Indika Pathinivasan

Year: 1999

Nationality: Sri Lanka

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Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka

Press organization: Maharaja Television Network

What's Indika Pathinivasan's story?

Anura Pathinivasan, a camera assistant for Sri Lanka’s privately owned Maharaja Television Network, and Indika Priyantha, a camera assistant for the state-owned Independent Television Network, were fatally wounded by shrapnel from a suicide bomb aimed at President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga at an election rally in Colombo. Five other journalists were injured by the blast, along with Kumaratunga and scores of onlookers.

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