Woman suicide bomber was staying at Kaduwela
May 13th, 2006
Police investigations into the suicide bomber attack in the military headquarters precincts on April 25th thay killed nine persons and seriously injured army commander Sarath Fonseka have discovered that the woman suspect who allegedly blew herself up came on that fateful day from a residence in Kaduwela a Colombo suburb.
Investigators say that the woman whose identity remains unknown was fair – complexioned with long hair tresses. She was about 5 feet 3 inches tall and aged between 35 to 40. She was wearing a green Salwar, black kameez and Yellow pasmina on the day she died. Her gold ear – rings were studded with star shaped red stones.
Police investigators now say that she had entered the Army HQ on that day without surrendering her national ID card. This had been made possible by a civilian clerk at the military hospital. Police allege that the man whose name they refused to reveal was the paramour of the woman suspect.
She had befriended him and was carrying on as his lover in order to get his assistance in getting through to the army HQ say Police. Among the man’s functions at the hospital was the arranging of medical appointments with doctors for prospective patients.
In the case of this woman her male friend had brought her to the hospital at least five times on previous occasions say Police. It was he who arranged for her to stay in Kaduwela and brought her to the HQ on that fateful day.
Asked whether the man had been arrested Police sources said cryptically that he had been killed in the explosion with the woman.
Police also said that the question of the woman being pregnant or not had not been proved yet.
Police had also checked out eight unclaimed national identity cards belonging to women and discovered that all of them were including a Tamil were alive.
Police have also released an artistic impression of the woman’s face and called for information from the public. - D.B.S. Jeyaraj
Related:
- No progress in Police probe into suicide attack
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