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Akshat Saraf was traveling along with his spouse and younger baby over the Easter vacations in Sri Lanka. Having enjoyed a restful excursion, the family overslept on Sunday morning within the room on the twenty fifth ground of the Shangri-los angeles in in Colombo.

We have been just on the point of cross downstairs for breakfast was after I heard the first explosive noise,” Saraf informed CNN via Skype from his domestic in Bangalore, India. “At that point I wasn’t positive what the nature of the sound become. According to my view notion it become a loud thunderstorm … the entire room started shaking.”
Some seconds later they heard any other increase. Searching out the window, he noticed a set of by standers turn and begin pointing at the building.

“this is once I found out possibly the sound, the explosive noise, did come from our building and i requested my wife to pick up the passports and we right away left the room.,” said Saraf.