with international expertise and another reason why i said that sunday's attacks had more then domestic planning is the fact that seven suicide vests went off practically as planned and in unison here's a rundown of what happened yesterday what we know so far at eight forty five am local time suicide bombers launched a first wave of near simultaneous attacks in and around the capital colombo bombers struck two of the city's luxury hotels the shangri-la and the kingsbury hotel there were also explosions at st anthony's church in colombo and further north at st sebastian in the gumbo now just five minutes later a suicide bomber attacked colombo's sit in grand hotel. and across the aisle a quarter of an hour later there was an explosion at the zion roman catholic church