| Madhu school bus bombing | |
|---|---|
 Mannar District within Sri Lanka | |
| Location | Madhu, Mannar, Sri Lanka |
| Date | January 29, 2008 14:30[1] (UTC+5:30) |
Attack type | Remote bombing |
| Weapons | Claymore Mine |
| Deaths | 17 ( 6 Adults and 11 School Children)[2] |
| Injured | 14 |
| Perpetrator | Sri Lankan Army’s deep penetration unit[3][4] |
The Madhu School bus bombing, also known as Thadchanamadhu claymore attack, was the bombing of a school bus carried out on January 29, 2008, in rebel LTTE controlled area in Thadchanamadhu in Mannar, Northern province of Sri Lanka. The bombing killed 17 Tamils, including 11 school children, and injured at least 14 more people. The LTTE and NESHOR accused the Sri Lankan Army ’s deep penetration unit for the attack but the Army denied the allegations. This attack was the second attack on a civilian bus in the month of January in Sri Lanka[5][6][7][3]
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- ^ "20 killed, 14 wounded, SLA attacks bus carrying school children in Madu". Tamilnet. 4 August 2017.
- ^ Frances Harrison (6 September 2012). Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka’s Hidden War. Granta Publications. pp. 81–. ISBN 978-1-84627-471-8. Retrieved 8 July 2021.