Police identified the names of three males as Mohammad Ivuhaim Sadiq Abdul Haq, Mohammed Ivuhaim Shaid Abdul Haq, Mohammed Casim Mohammed Rilwan. Three women suspected of involvement were identified as Fatima Latif, Pulasthini Mahendran alias Sarah, Abdul Cader Fatima Kadir. All appeared to be in their 20s.

Further investigation by Sri Lankan authorities identified the suicide bombers as Zahran Hashim and Ilham Ibrahim (who blew themselves up at Shangri-La Hotel), Inshaf Ibrahim (who attacked the Cinnamon Grand bomber), Mohammad Azad (the Zion Church bomber) and Mohammad Hasthoon, who is believed to have carried out the deadliest act targeting church of St. Sebastian during the Easter Mass.

One name among the list of terror suspects stood out - Pulasthini Mahendran alias Sarah.

Pulasthini Mahendran aka Sara, the wife of suicide bomber Mohammad Hasthoon, is also said to be an active participant in the terror plot.

Sri Lankan authorities are currently investigating whether the wife intended to be a bomber herself after a pastor of a church identified her as wearing a long skirt and waiting at the gates of his church at daybreak Easter morning.

According to this report in The Wall Street Journal that is based on the pastor’s account, she entered the church and prayed, but appeared to be in physical pain as and left before the 7:30 a.m. Easter mass and didn’t return. Her family has since confirmed that she does have a difficulty kneeling because of permanent injury to one of her knees from an accident many years ago.

A new investigation by a popular web channel IBC Tamizh has revealed several explosive details on how Pulasthini Mahendran, born in a devout lower middle class Hindu family in Thettativu (situated in Batticaloa district, Eastern province, Sri Lanka), was trapped, abducted and radicalised by functionaries of Islamists groups.