Bomb hurled at tsunami relief centre in Sri Lanka

The bomb was hurled at a security post at the centre in the Muslim town of Muttur, police said.

The coastal region has been gripped by unrest since four men were killed when a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) office was attacked on Sunday.

The nine civilians hurt in the pre-dawn attack were all survivors of December's tsunami disaster, which killed more than 31,000 people in Sri Lanka and initially displaced a million.

All the wounded were admitted to hospital, the police official from the district capital of Trincomalee said.

He said another soldier was wounded Wednesday when a second sentry point in the same district was attacked by suspected Tiger gunmen.

Pro-rebel activists on Tuesday had set fire to tyres and blocked several roads in Trincomalee to protest the killing of four men at the LTTE office on Sunday.