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Life attempt on a Sri Lankan minister foiled
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 30 - 11 - 2007


In chilling security camera
footage, a female suicide bomber on a mission to kill a Sri
Lankan Cabinet minister is seen patiently answering
questions in a bustling government office before calmly
standing up and detonating the bomb hidden in her bra.
The video, released by police Friday, gave a rare look at
a suicide bomber's last moments and the immediate aftermath
of a devastating attack.
In the footage, the bomber, wearing a yellow sari and a
white shawl, calmly walked into a small waiting room at the
Colombo offices of Social Services Minister Douglas
Devananda on Wednesday, the day he sets aside to hear
complaints from members of the public.
The woman, identified by police as 24-year-old Sujatha
Vagawanam, sat down in front of a desk and answered
questions from Devananda's 72-year-old aide Steven Peiris.
As the two spoke, Peiris was repeatedly interrupted by
other officials sitting nearby or walking past.
After nearly a minute and a half, he began gesturing for
her to sit down in a nearby cluster of white plastic
chairs, apparently to await a security check. She then
stood up facing Peiris, reached her right hand to her right
shoulder to grab something and exploded.
Peiris and the bomber, both of whom were killed, flew
backward. The others in the room scrambled to run in all
directions, some falling over their chairs in their haste
to escape as a cloud of smoke hung in the air.
«She thought she was getting caught, so she exploded her
bomb,» said Devananda, the target of the attack.
Devananda, a Tamil politician seen as a rival to the Tamil
Tiger rebel group, said the guerrillas had made more than
10 attempts on his life and killed more than 70 members of
his Eelam People's Democratic Party in recent years.
«This is nothing new to me,» he told The Associated
Press in an interview at his heavily guarded home in
Colombo. «I expect that these things happen, and will
happen. It will continue.»


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