This video was filmed approximately two and half hours after the bomb exploded on a crowded bus at a bus-stop in Piliyandala, near Colombo, in Sri Lanka. There was a mobile phone ringing inside the bus.

Earlier today the Sri Lankan military secured the Madhu in Mannar.

The LTTE are being blamed for the bus explosion. Latest reports say that 24 people are dead and 40 wounded.

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