Fort Railway Station bomb: Convict sentenced 20 years RI

29 March 2017 02:29 pm

High Court today sentenced Kanakasabai Devadasan alias Nadan to a 20-year rigorous imprisonment over the charges of aiding, abetting and conspiring the 2008 Fort Railway Station suicide bombing, in which 12 people were killed and more than 100 people injured.

Among the killed were eight students of the D. S. Senanayake  College's baseball team and their coach.

The attack was carried out by a female suicide bomber belonging to the LTTE, who got down from a train and exploded during rush hour on Platform 3 of the Fort Railway Station.(Shehan Chamika Silva)