Sri Lankan cricketer Dasun Shanaka barely survived one of the deadly blasts that killed more than 320 people in the island nation on Easter Sunday.
"Normally I would have gone to church... I was tired," Shanaka told the website in comments published Monday.
"The entire church was destroyed, absolutely shattered, and people were dragging lifeless bodies outside." in the blast at St Sebastian's than any of the other attacks, with the local hospital receiving more than 100 bodies."If you saw the scene, you would know there was no way anyone inside could have survived, because simply the debris from the blast had injured everyone even in the vicinity," Shanaka told Cricinfo.
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