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Sri Lanka’s national carrier, AirLanka, has eliminated one of
its two weekly flights to Japan because of its sharp drop in Japanese
tourists.
AirLanka’s manager for Japan told airline officials in Colombo
5 this week that Japanese tourists were avoiding Sri Lanka because of
the rising ethnic violence on the island.
Two Japanese nationals were killed and two others were
seriously wounded in the bomb explosions earlier this month inside
an AirLanka passenger jet. The Sri Lanka Government blamed the
10 blast on Tamil militants fighting for a separate homeland.