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(26 Jun 2006) SHOTLIST SLRC - No Access Sri Lanka 1. Zoom in scene of blast which killed Major General Parami Kulatunga, crowds gathered AP Television 2. Ambulance leaving scene 3. Security guards rushing to scene 4. Targeted vehicle engulfed in flames, zoom out pan to onlookers 5. Burning vehicle with man dousing it in water 6. Blood stains on ground 7. Note book on ground 8. Discarded shoe on ground 9. Interior of nearby vehicle damaged by blast, pan to burning targeted vehicle 10. Police officer inquiring about the incident from eye witness 11. Targetted vehicle being inspected 12. Wide of scene. SLRC - No Access Sri Lanka 13. Smoke rising from charred vehicle 14. Police officials in area of blast UPSOUND sirens 15. Damaged vehicle 16. Notebook on ground 17. Zoom out from numnber plate 18. Fire truck and other emergency services at the scene 19. Jeep 20. Debris 21. Police cordon with damaged vehicle, zoom out to civilian bus near the blast site AP Television 22. SOUNDBITE (Sinhala) Keneth Guruge, eyewitness: "There was a sudden noise and we could see fire from the other side (of the road). When we came here to see what happened we saw an army causality bleeding badly." 23. Wreckage of targeted 24. Close-up flame under car bonnet 25. Close-up victim's discarded shoe 26. Wide of car wreck, pan to scene of blast with debris scattered 27. Tilt down of police officer inspecting targeted car 28. Onlookers behind security cordon 29. Army soldier and police officer stand guard in front of targeted car 30. Police cordon 31. Onlooker 32. Close up soldiers holding automatic rifles at scene 33. Mid shot soldiers STORYLINE A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up next to a car carrying a top Sri Lankan general on Monday, killing the third-highest ranking officer in the military and three other people, officials said. Five others were wounded. Sri Lankan authorities were quick to blame the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for the attack, who have long used suicide bombers in major attacks. There was no comment from the rebels, but a pro-rebel Web site reported the attack without comment. The car carrying Major General Parami Kulatunga was taking the general to work in Colombo when it was hit by the suicide bomber, the military said. Kulatunga was a hardened combat veteran who had led numerous operations against the rebels in Sri Lanka's northeast, the main theatre of fighting during nearly two decades of full-scale war. Eyewitness Keneth Guruge, 29, said he arrived at the scene to see "an army casualty bleeding badly." Kulatunga survived the initial blast but died on the way to the city's National Hospital, according to a military spokesman. An hour after the explosion, the general's Peugeot was still on fire. Another vehicle in the general's convoy, a pickup-truck, was also damaged. The blast also killed the general's driver, a security guard and a civilian passer-by, the military said. Five other bystanders were wounded and admitted to a hospital. Four months of violence have brought Sri Lanka dangerously close to the brink of resuming full-scale civil war. Monday's blast, a rare attack so close to the capital, came just two months after the Tigers' tried to kill Sri Lanka's top military commander in a suicide bombing in Colombo. Discrimination against Sri Lanka's 3.2 million Tamils, most of whom are Hindu, led the Tigers to take up arms in 1983. The resulting war on this tropical island of 19 (m) million people, nearly three-quarters of them Buddhist Sinhalese, left more than 65-thousand people dead before a 2002 cease-fire. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...