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Tue 04 Apr 2007Tamil Tigers deny bus bombing that killed 16 peopleSRI LANKA:Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers bombed a civilian bus yesterday killing 16 people, mostly women and children during a Buddhist holiday, military officials said, but the rebels denied involvement.The government condemned what it called a "cowardly terror" attack, which took place in the eastern district of Ampara, taking the death toll from a number of incidents overnight in the north and east to 33.