"his eyes were horrified", Melbourne survivors recalled the incident.
Now that he has returned home safely from Sri Lanka to Melbourne for rest, he has been lucky enough to escape the knot in the course of explosion and is not in a bad mood except that he is still in a state of mind.
But he still remembers all the details of the incident, and even more astonishingly, he met with bomb`s eyes.
"my friend and I were about to go to the hotel restaurant for breakfast. While waiting for my seat, I noticed two men behind me whispering in a language I didn`t understand."
Restaurant on the 4th floor of Hotel Shangri La Santa Monica, famous for seeing the sea view
Sam Nottle felt very surprised at the moment because he hadn`t seen the two men appear in the hotel in the past few days, and both of them were carrying very large backpacks and looked quite heavy.
In surveillance footage released by the police, suicide bomb passengers can be seen carrying a large backpack.
One of the men looked at Sam at the moment, seemingly noticing Sam Nottle`s suspicions, and the two men were agitated.
"they were rude, obviously irritable, their eyes agitated, and they seemed to be excited about something."
Sam pondered for a moment and said, "in retrospect, they might be talking about where to blow up the most people."
Police pull a cordon at the restaurant after bomb explosion
Sam and his friends had breakfast in the restaurant and a table overlooking the sea in the past two days, but on Sunday the waiter brought them to another table.
"We were a little unhappy at first because we couldn`t see the sea view in the morning, but if we hadn`t changed seats, who knew if I could survive."
After explosion, there was smoke coming out of the restaurant.
Just 30 seconds after they sat down and ordered a drink, there was a huge flash, followed by a powerful explosion that blew up all the windows of the restaurant, killing millions of lives.
"I heard the children crying, even children lying on the ground, I don`t know if they are dead... everything is crazy..."
Because of the distance, Sam and his friends were only rocked by explosion and looked at the tragedy and fire. They thought about jumping out of the window, and then they hid behind the table and squatted very low.
"We went downstairs along the escape exit to the parking lot, trying to stay as far away from the building as possible."
"I was really scared. My friends and I just wanted to hurry up to leave`s side."
When the rescue arrived, Sam dared to look around. One second, everyone was still enjoying the holiday, enjoying the beautiful sun and the sea view, they could be a family, maybe a friend, maybe a lover.
Now, it`s gone.
All that`s left is blood on my own and my friends.
"everyone in the hotel is very friendly, and they should not have suffered such a disaster.
But in any case, my friend and I have survived, only to say too lucky. "
"the last second is fine, and the next is not moving." The Australian father lost his wife and daughter.
But there are also many people who, unlike Sam and his friends, can escape from death. Prime Minister Morrison`s death list includes an Australian woman and her 10-year-old daughter.
(Manik Suriaaratchi) and her daughter, Alexandra (Alexendria), were both killed in explosion, a church in (Negombo), Negambo.
Explosion happened when Suliarach`s husband, Soodesch Colon (Sudesh Kolonne), was outside the church.
"when explosion happened, I rushed into the church and saw my wife and daughter lying on the floor."
Looking back at the scene, Soodeh Cologne could not help weeping. Everything was so sudden that the family was fine last second and the next was a cold corpse.
A long-term British doctor`s husband and wife in Perth also died in the explosion.
The 56-year-old British couple, Dr., Sally Bradley, and her firefighter husband, Bill Harrop, are both British, but fall in love with Perth, Australia.
Photo two people stand together sweetly, sunny summer wearing Christmas hat, is Australia`s most typical Christmas scenery.
The British couple settled in Perth in 2013, and the couple have declared that they have made Perth their home.
The two men were killed when they were involved in a suicide explosion attack at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel Cinnamon Hotel.
03 Sri Lankan Defence Director: the series of explosion cases is the revenge of the murderer for the mosque massacre in New Zealand
Sri Lanka`s Easter attacks on churches and hotels killed 321 people, 38 of them foreigners, on April 23. In addition, 500 people are still injured. The United Nations says there are 45 children among the dead.
And the motive of the bomb attack has always been one of the key points of speculation from the outside world.
According to the latest news from the Guardian, Sri Lankan Defence minister Viehuadnane told Parliament Tuesday afternoon that the investigation revealed:
The attack "was in retaliation for the attack on Muslim in Christchurch."
On March 15, gunman assaulted two mosque sites in Christchurch, New Western, killing 50 death and injuring 39. Gunman Tarant has posted hate Islam content on the Internet and live broadcast has committed the crime.
Preliminary investigations show that the Easter terrorist attack was Islam radical group revenge on the mosque shoot case in New Zealand. Two Sri Lankan Islam militant groups have jointly carried out these attacks. One of them is called National.
Thawheed Jama`ut (NTJ), another gane called Jammiyathul Millathu Ibrahim..
Attack on St. Anthony Church in Sri Lanka
The British
According to reported security expert Rohan Gunaratna, the group regularly travels to Syria and Iraq to participate in ISIS training and terrorist activities there.
Although all seven suicidal bomb visitors are Sri Lankan locals, they are not excluded from the possibility of receiving help from international organizations.
NTJ is an extremist marginalized group, in an already small religious minority, it is difficult to independently complete such a scale of terrorist attacks.
The latest news from foreign media also confirmed that IS-related groups had released chilling videos claiming responsibility for the Sri Lankan massacre.
According to several reports, the official al-Amaq news agency of the terrorist group claimed on its encrypted message application channel on Tuesday night. The video is said to have come from Al Ghuraba Media, which is not an official IS channel, but is believed to be run by IS supporters.
The video also shows photo, who was suspected of three suicidal bomb assailants.
Three ISIS members, Abul Barra, Abul Mukhtar and Abu Ubaida, are known as "an attacker" rather than more common "martyr", and appear before a black IS flag.
But why the shoot incident in New Zealand, and how does the Australian gunman have anything to do with Sri Lanka? Why is Sri Lanka, where Buddhism prevails, "the target of revenge"?
There is no explanation.
Conclusion of 04 edito
Whether it was the shoot incident in New Zealand or the Sri Lankan terrorist attack, it was a despicable act of religious and ethnocentrical superiority. Dehumanization, indiscriminate killing innocent, is the most true truth.
Rushing "retaliation", but choosing an unrelated place to launch an attack, this is the despicable face of terrorism, no faith, no idea. Xiao Bian also severely condemned terrorist acts, and also mourned for all victims and their families.
