Two hundred and fifty people have been killed in a series of bombings two years ago. Christians and foreigners visiting churches and tourist hotels that day were the targets of the terrorist attack. Despite earlier warnings that such an attack could take place, the general public was unaware of it. If they had known, they would all or at least some of them have survived.
According to Sri Lankan government officials, all eight bombers were Sri Lankans and affiliated with the National Tawheed Jamaat. Tawheed Jamaat is a local militant Islamist group suspected of having foreign ties, previously targeting Buddhists and Sufi Muslims. Minister of Defense Ruwan Wijewardene told Parliament on April 23 that the government believed the attack was in retaliation for the March 15, 2019 attack on Christchurch. But the Tawheed Jamaat has been collecting explosives since January 2019.
However, on the eve of Easter, I was getting ready to go to my uncle's A / L Sinhala tuition class in Homagama at 11 am. Later that evening we were to spend the evening at the Kingsbury Hotel. Somehow I watch TV when I have breakfast. It's my habit. It was about 9.15 that morning when I ate breakfast. Shortly after, breaking news broke on TV about an explosion at a church in Kochchikade. Grandpa and I were both in front of the TV. Later, while Grandpa was talking to people he knew and trying to prove it to be true, a series of explosions continued. Somehow I did not go to class that day. It was also at a restaurant in the Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo that the suicide bomber detonated.
However, April 21 is an unfortunate day when a father loses children, a mother loses children, children lose parents, a girlfriend loses a boyfriend, a girlfriend loses a boyfriend, a husband loses a wife and a wife loses a husband. The perpetrators of the attack are still at large.
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