On November 27, 2007 female member of LTTE aka Tamil Tigers attempted
to kill Sri Lankan Cabinet minister Douglas Devananda and it was caught
on CCTV camera. The female suicide bomber who had explosives strapped
to her bra is seen in the video speaking with the cabinet minister
before getting up and reaching into her bra to set the bomb off.
Douglas Devananda who was Sri Lanka’s Minister for Social Welfare and
a leader of the EPDP at the time was not harmed, rendering the mission
of the suicide bomber unsuccessful. The woman suffered from polio and
used it to her advantage as owing to her visible disability, the
security guards did not perform thorough body check. Aside from the
woman, one security guard was mortally wounded by the blast and
succumbed to his injuries later in a hospital.