Destruction of property and life by LTTE terrorists by planting a bomb and exploding it with a remote control device in the bus belonging to the Kesbewa Depot of the Ceylon Transport Board bearing no.63-4170 filed with passengers which was traveling from the Piliyandala main bus stand to a suburb called Kahapola at about 6.40p.m on 25th April 2008, which caused death to unarmed 28 villages and injuries to more than 70 unarmed villages without discrimination to gender. This incident had occurred when the bus filled with passengers was entering the Colombo-Horana main road opposite the Piliyandala bus stand. It can be assumed that there had been about 150 passengers packed in the bus at that time. The parcel bomb which had been kept on the right side about 20 feet behind the driver. It had exploded and 28 persons were killed and over 70 passengers were injured. There are also persons living crippled fro their life time.

It is a gruesome bomb explosion caused by the LTTE Tamil tiger terrorists to kill innocent unarmed citizens of the south to oppose the war continued in the north by the Government Forces. The Police after few hours of this incident had taken into custody 3 main suspects and 13 who had aided them. The two bus is fully damaged to the extent it cannot drive again.

I, R.D. Dayawathi, mother of the deceased bus conductor nandana Kumara. My husband is a patient suffering from high blood pressure. I had five children. The deceased son Nandana Kumara is the fourth. There are 3 girls elder to him and a younger brother. Nandana Kumara was obtained as a priest at the age of 9 years at Bombuwela Temple and as there was deficiency of income in the family and it was difficult to continue livelihood he left robes and followed a computer course to get employment.

Though he went to several places in search of employment and could not find one, and having come to know that conductors are recruited for the CTB he went for employment as a conductor from 08th April 2008. thereafter he stayed at Kesbewa and whilst working as a conductor he came home on 24th April 2008 to see us. Stating that he had o go for work in the evening of 25th April 2008, he left home that day in the morning of 25th April 2008 at about 08.00a.m. While leaving the house he said that he would come home after work was over on the 26th for some requirement.

That night about 8.00p.m we came to know that a bomb had exploded in a bus near Piliyandala bus stand and several people have died and several others were gravely injured. Having come to Piliyandala on that information we came to know that my son Nandana Kumara was caught to the bomb and died inside the bus.

My son left robes with the intention of finding employment, as he could not bear the poverty in the home. Demise of Nandana Kumara who was friendly with everybody in the village is an unbearable sorrow and loss for all of us. It is known that this bomb explosion is an act of LTTE Tamil terrorists.

I am a resident of Kithulpitiya Gramaseva Division 542 in the Kurunegala District. I was working as a driver in the Kesbewa Depot.

On 25th of April 2008 I was working in the Piliyandala – Kahapola bus and suffered severe injuries due to the bomb blast that occurred in the bus. Fortunately, my life was saved though injured. I am a farther of three school-aged children.

I suffered injuries to my head and eyes. Some pices of glass are shelled inside the skull of my head. I suffer from mental unrest and faintish at sometimes. At present, I am working as a driver in the Ridigama sub depot.

This LTTE terrorist attack still haunts me and cannot get out of my mind.