Police defuse market bomb in Sri Lanka

Bomb squad officers have defused explosives strapped to a vegetable-laden bicycle at a market in the Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo.

The bomb squad said suspected Tamil Tigers packed 15 kilograms of explosives around a Claymore mine which was found during a random check at market in eastern Colombo.

The find came after several bomb attacks in the city this month.

Sporadic violence in the Tamil-dominated north and east is in its fourth week of the worst fighting between government forces and the rebels since a 2002 ceasefire.

- RADIO AUSTRALIA