SRK rushes home after Lanka blast

COLOMBO: Five people fought for their lives on Sunday, a day after a grenade attack killed two concert goers and wounded 18 at a show featuring Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan and other top Indian film actors here, police said.
Shah Rukh, who apparently didn''t immediately realise what had happened and continued his performance until security staff whisked him offstage, rushed back to Mumbai on Sunday after the security guards drove his entourage straight to the airport, hours ahead of their planned departure.
None of the artists were hurt, but former Indian cricketer Ravi Shastri''s wife was wounded and admitted to a hospital.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack and no one has been arrested so far.
The grenade attack came just hours after police used tear gas to break up a protest by Buddhists who tried to prevent the concert — held a day before the anniversary of the death of a leading Buddhist cleric. Demonstrators said they wanted only religious activities over the weekend.
Arriving in Mumbai, Shah Rukh told reporters that he did not believe the attack had anything to do with the protests by Buddhist monks against his show.
He said such incidents would not deter him from holding similar concerts in the future.
The monks called off their protest several hours before the show started after Shah Rukh apologised for the inadvertent timing of the concert, but supporters of the monks later attacked cars and concert-goers and clashed with police who retaliated with teargas, water cannons and rubber bullets.
"Five among the injured are in critical condition including an 11-year-old boy with a head injury," said Anil Jayasinghe, a director at the Colombo National hospital.
A local hotel employee and a press photographer were killed.
"We are in the process of forming several teams to look into all possibilities," said senior superintendent of police Sarath Lugoda, who is heading the investigation. Sri Lanka''s influential all-clergy National Heritage Party blamed the government for security breaches and held the administration responsible for the attack.