Where is Sara Jasmine? Another DNA Test to be Conducted

The remains of those who were killed when suspected Islamist militants blew themselves up in a raid in Saithamaruthu, following Easter Sunday terror attacks in 2019, will be exhumed tomorrow (27). This is to conduct DNA tests on the remains to determine whether Sara Jasmine alias Pulanthini Rajendran was among them. Sara Jasmine was the wife of Kochchikade suicide bomber Atchi Muhammadu Muhammadu Hasthun. According to the Police, 17 persons including children were killed when three men set off explosives and the Islamist militants opened fire at troops on 26 April 2019. It was heared at The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) on Easter Sunday terror attacks that Pulasthini might not was among those dead at the Sainthamaruthu safe house. SSP Samantha Wijeseskara, who was in charge of Ampara Police during the Easter Sunday terror attacks told eyewitness claimed that the suspect was seen at around 3.15 am entering the Beach Road from Batticaloa-Kalmunai main road in the company of two males, last Septemberthe PCoI that according to new information, none of the DNA samples from the 16 bodies matched the sample from Pulasthini’s mother. Chief Inspector Arjuna Mahilkanda, an investigating officer at the PCoI investigation unit revealed an eyewitness claimed that the suspect was seen at around 3.15 am entering the Beach Road from Batticaloa-Kalmunai main road in the company of two males, in September 2019. Last week, Public Security Minister Prasanna Ranatunga said in Parliament that the witness who claimed he saw Sara Jasmine is also missing.