Lankan monk MP ends fast after talks

But a bigger threat to President Chandrika Kumaratunga's government loomed with a threat by the Marxist JVP party to pull out of the ruling coalition, setting the stage for its possible collapse, unless she abandons the aid-sharing plan by next Wednesday.

Opponents of the aid-sharing plan fear it will grant legitimacy to the rebels' separatist campaign.

Buddhist monk Omalpe Sobitha from the all-clergy National Heritage Party ended the fast outside the Temple of the Tooth in the central town of Kandy, a protest organiser said.

Meanwhile, suspected Tamil Tiger rebels attacked the office of a rival Tamil group in northern Sri Lanka with grenades Saturday, killing two people and wounding five, the military said.