Wednesday 29 March 2017

Fort Railway Station bomb: Convict sentenced 20 years RI

By Shehan Chamika Silva

Colombo High Court Judge sentenced a Tamil individual to a 20 years rigorous imprisonment over the charges of aiding-abetting and conspiring the 2008 Fort Railway Station suicide bombing, which killed 16 and injured more than 92 people.

Colombo High Court Judge Piyasena Ranasinghe convicted Kanakasabe Devadasan alias Nadan over the allegations put forward against him by the Prosecution under the section 3 of the Prevention of Terrorism Act.

In the attack, eight school children of D. S. Senanayake College baseball team and their coach were killed.

The attack was allegedly carried out by a female suicide bomber of LTTE, who got down from a train and exploded during rush hours on Platform 3 at Fort Railway Station.

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