Sumith Wijelal, owner of the motel where the Australian and British-educated suicide bomber had detonated his device inside, looks on in front of his motel's signboard on the main road in Dehiwala outskirt of Colombo, Sri Lanka April 26, 2019. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte
COLOMBO (Reuters) - His target was the breakfast buffet at the Taj Samudra, a luxury hotel on Colombo's seafront. Instead, he ended up detonating his explosive device in a budget motel by the city's zoo, killing a couple who had arrived only half an hour earlier.
Abdul Latheef Mohamed Jameel, who was educated in Australia and Britain, was the only attacker out of the eight Sri Lankans pledging allegiance to Islamic State who failed to hit his intended target in the series of Easter Sunday attacks that killed at least 253, according to police.
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