CAPTION ONLY: SLAIN CANDIDATE'S WIDOW TO RUN IN HIS PLACE

Srima Dissanayake, center, the widow of assassinated Sri Lankan opposition leader Gamini Dissanayake, greets well-wishers at her husband's wake in Colombo Wednesday. On Tuesday, the opposition United National Party (UNP) picked Srima Dissanayake to take her husband's place on the ballot against Prime Minister Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga in next month's presidential election. The UNP selected Srima Dissanayake over ex-Premier Ranil Wickremasinghe in the hope of a sympathy vote Nov. 9, party sources said. Gamini Dissanayake was killed along with 51 others by a suicide bomber at a campaign rally just after midnight Sunday. Police have released a picture of the crowd taken by a photographer killed in the blast, saying it may help identify a suspected Tamil guerrilla whom they blame for the blast.