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| Thursday, 16 December 2004 |
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by Sarath Malalasekera Colombo Fort Additional Magistrate Kavindra Nanayakkara yesterday remanded Sathyaseelan Selvakumar, 29, of Jaffna, the woman accomplice of the LTTE woman suicide bomber who committed suicide at the Kollupitiya Police station premises, till December 29. Earlier, Colombo Fort Magistrate and Additional District Judge Sarath C. Karunaratne allowed a CID application to question several persons who allegedly used cellular phones on the day of the incident. Investigations revealed that the LTTE had selected the woman in custody to accompany the woman suicide bomber as she had access to Minister Douglas Devananda's office. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) earlier took over investigations into the bomb attack at the Kollupitiya Police station on July 7, where four police personnel and the LTTE woman suicide bomber were killed. The four police personnel killed were Inspector M.H.D. Ekanayake, Sergeant Artygala and two Reserve Police Constables Liyanage and Chandra Jayantha. Investigations revealed that the LTTE woman suicide bomber had been assigned to assassinate Devananda. The woman accomplice was arrested by a team of Special Task Force officers immediatley after the incident. Investigators had also discovered that the national identity cards found with the woman suicide bomber and her accomplice were forged. The suspect woman was remanded till December 29. |
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