Sri Lanka: Suicide blast after rebel capital falls

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up outside air force headquarters Friday in Colombo, killing two air force police officers and a member of the bomb-disposal unit, authorities said.
The bombing occurred about one hour after President Mahinda Rajapaksa urged the Tamil Tigers to lay down their arms and end a quarter-century of civil war. Before he made that request, government troops retook the separatists' former capital, Kilinochchi.
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