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Suicide bomber: mistaken identity

Divaina newspaper on March 13, 2009 had to apologise for a photograph which it published (apparently in its provincial edition/s) few days back claiming that the severed head in the picture was of the suicide bomber responsible for bomb blast in Matara. The apology was not for publishing the severed head but for mistaken identity. The newspaper said that the severed head that was published was not of the suicide bomber, but of a local council member who succumbed during the explosion.

Following is the apology published by the newspaper: