Superintendent of Police Dimuthu Samaranayake, member of Matara Rahula 93 team, Police Special Task Force
"...Even today, when I go near a bomb, I remember my family. I saw my body there with my own eyes.." - He was the God on earth who saved many lives on dark Easter!
"Lord, I have neutralized a large number of bombs in my life. But even today, when I go to a bomb, I remember my family. One side of the circuit of that bomb is hidden.
His name is Dimuthu Suranga Samaranayake. He is currently the director of the Sri Lanka Police Special Task Force's Anti-Terrorism Investigation and Bomb Disposal Division. During the brutal 30-year war, he saved the lives of others by averting many tragedies such as 2005 - Talawila suicide boat bomb, 2006 - Borella Junction bomb and Ayueveda roundabout suicide bomb. It is my belief that the hero.
This is the only silver star that we saw in the thick darkness of this Easter, in a background where all the officers who claim to be superior, from the first citizen down, turned their duty into a dereliction of criminal responsibility, and became unofficial fish killers, despite having received prior intelligence about the Easter attack.
In other words, he is the hero who reduced the number of lives lost to Easter terror by 10, 100 or 1000.
Before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on 03.03.2020, Reverend Jude Raj Fernando, the shrine administrator of St. Anthony's Cathedral in Kochchikade, testified and disclosed that he asked the security forces why the cars parked at the place were not removed even in the afternoon of the day of the bomb attack.
The police officer who answered it told the father "Father Don't Worry. Everything is Tagged and Clear". In the background that the police officer had checked everything like that, the white van that had been parked at that place must have fallen from the sky the next day.
On the day after the attack, the CCTV camera footage of the Kochchikade Cathedral Choir's home was caught showing the bomber stopping the van on the day of the attack and going to the Cathedral for the attack.
According to Reverend Father Jude Raj, the 119 residents were contacted and informed about this before notifying them, but no action has been taken. Later, Reverend Jude Raj was informed about it through the assistant priest of the church and after he informed the cardinal, the high security units were activated.
According to the Director of the Bomb Disposal Division of the Police Special Task Force, an officer named Priyantha, who was under him before him, inspected the bomb-laden van and informed Mr. Dimuthu Samaranayake that it was "Sir Abade". Awareness in their language means a powerful bomb that is very difficult to defuse.
With that arrangement, Mr. Dimuthu Samaranayake reached the place where the van with the bomb was found within a short period of 05 minutes and by that time, the bomb disposal units of the Triwida Army had already decided that this was a difficult bomb to neutralize.
When Mr. Dimuthu Samaranayake arrived at the place, the security officers at the place tried to stop him by forcing him not to go to the place where the bomb was.
However, ignoring those warnings, he went to the car with the bomb as soon as he could in a set of protective clothing and checked how it was arranged.
It has been revealed that the terrorists installed this high-powered bomb in the van in question using 04 or 05 brand new gas cylinders through 3 very subtle strategies.
As the first method, a time interval of a washing machine was attached to the bomb and according to that interval, the bomb was scheduled to explode within a maximum period of one hour.
However, by the time Mr. Dimuthu Samaranayake was testing it, the one-hour interval had passed and it was ready to explode, but he revealed the fact that the explosion of the bomb was stopped due to the interruption of the electricity supplied to the circuit.
He also revealed that a cloth was made to cover a piece of Thangus Nul that had traveled around the bomb and that two 1000 rupee notes were kept in such a way as to encourage someone to shake it.
Mr. Dimuthu Samaranayake stated before the Presidential Commission that he had read about how this bomb had been prepared in a short period of time, and that he understood that in order to deactivate it, a piece of wire had to be pulled down.
He mentioned that when he went to pull down that piece of wire with the help of a hook used to defuse bombs, it went down faster than he thought and at that time he even saw his dead body in front of him.
Mr. Dimuthu Samaranayake said that he jumped away as soon as the piece of string pulled out of the bomb and the bomb exploded at the same time. At that time, a nearby dog threw the pieces into pieces and he felt some pressure on both sides of his waist.
However, he was surprised as to why nothing happened to him and then he accidentally hit an electric pole and the pole was badly damaged.
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