Gunmen fired at buses carrying minority Muslim voters on Saturday as Sri Lankans elected a new president, with the powerful Rajapaksa clan eyeing a comeback seven months after the island was hit by Islamist extremist attacks.
Minority Tamils and Muslims are seen as crucial in the close
election, and Saturday's attack in the northwest of the island -- in which no one was injured -- was likely aimed at deterring people from voting.
Such tactics are nothing new in Sri Lanka, which emerged from a horrific civil war only a decade ago.