Samarasinghe, who was accompanying a group of Colombo-based diplomats to the district of Batticaloa, said the attack came shortly after one of two helicopters landed at a public playground.
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"The ambassadors are slightly hurt," Samarasinghe said by telephone. "I was not injured. A shell fell a short distance away from where we were.
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A doctor at the main hospital in Batticaloa, 303 kilometres (187 miles) east of here by road, said the Italian ambassador had suffered head injuries.
"The diplomat has a foreign object embedded inside his head," hospital director Muruganathan Moorthy told AFP.
"We had a total of 11 people admitted after the shell attack.
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Four policemen, three Special Task Force commandos, two airforce men and a child were among the wounded.
Samarasinghe was taking the Colombo-based ambassadors to Batticaloa where security forces last month captured a key stronghold of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
President Mahinda Rajapakse visited the ar