41.   Prison officials said the two prisoners were in separate parts of the jail, but added they would investigate possible links between the two suspected suicides.

42.   Several people were wounded in an attack by a suspected Palestinian suicide bomber in northern Israel late Sunday, Israeli private television said.

43.   Sri Lankan police Wednesday launched a major hunt for a suspected Tamil suicide bomber, believed to be in Colombo to assassinate President Chandrika Kumaratunga.

44.   Soon afterwards three Palestinian suspected suicide bombers carrying explosives were killed trying to enter Israel from the northern Gaza Strip, the army said.

45.   The confrontations were the first since the assassination here Monday of opposition leader and presidential candidate Gamini Dissanayake by a suspected suicide bomber.

46.   The defence ministry earlier this week issued the photographs of five women and a man described as suspected suicide bombers of the LTTE.

47.   The killing of Dissanayake by a suspected suicide bomber brought him back into the spotlight.