COLOMBO: The suicide bomber waited patiently in a queue for Easter Sunday breakfast buffet at Sri Lanka’s Cinnamon Grand hotel before setting off explosives strapped to his back.
The Taprobane restaurant at the hotel was having one of its busiest days of the year for the Easter holiday weekend.“He came up to the top of the queue and set off the blast,” he added.The bomber also died. Parts of his body were found intact by police and taken away. The blast at St Anthony’s Shrine, an historic Catholic Church, was so powerful that it blew out much of the roof, leaving roof tiles, glass and splintered wood littering the floor that was strewn with bodies.
An AFP photographer saw extensive damage in the second floor restaurant at the hotel, with windows blown out and electrical wires hanging from the ceiling.
Looks like the bombers are well trained.
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