Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, has been assassinated by a sniper in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo.
Police have arrested two people in connection with the killing of the 73-year-old.
The military said he was shot at his tightly-guarded private residence and died in hospital. A senior police officer blamed the separatist Tamil Tigers for his assassination.
Although Mr Kadirgamar was a member of the minority Tamil community he was a close aide of the Sri Lankan President.
