<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Sri_Lanka" id="mwAVo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of Sri Lanka">Sri Lankan President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranasinghe_Premadasa" id="mwAVs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ranasinghe Premadasa">Ranasinghe Premadasa</a> is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Ranasinghe_Premadasa" id="mwAVw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Assassination of Ranasinghe Premadasa">assassinated</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombo" id="mwAV0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Colombo">Colombo</a> in a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bombing" id="mwAV4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Suicide bombing">suicide bombing</a> carried out by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam" id="mwAV8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam">Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam</a>.<sup about="#mwt107" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-19"}}' id="cite_ref-19" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_1#cite_note-19" id="mwAWA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 19;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAWE">[19]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-19"><cite about="#mwt104" class="citation news cs1" id="mwB5A"><a class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/05/02/suicide-bomber-kills-leader-of-sri-lanka/327fce4c-e105-442f-8d1b-16150110bca7/" id="mwB5E" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Suicide bomber kills leader of Sri Lanka"</a>. <i id="mwB5I">the Washington Post</i>. 2 May 1993<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB5M">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB5Q">2 August</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt104" class="Z3988" id="mwB5U" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=the+Washington+Post&amp;rft.atitle=Suicide+bomber+kills+leader+of+Sri+Lanka&amp;rft.date=1993-05-02&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Farchive%2Fpolitics%2F1993%2F05%2F02%2Fsuicide-bomber-kills-leader-of-sri-lanka%2F327fce4c-e105-442f-8d1b-16150110bca7%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+1"></span></span>