Bridge 2 Sri Lanka founder Sarah Griffith with one of the people the charity has helped.

A GUERNSEY woman is back in Hikkaduwa after narrowly avoiding a suicide bomb in Colombo that killed nine people and injured 95.

Bridge 2 Sri Lanka charity founder Sarah Griffith was doing business in the country’s capital on Friday when a motorcyclist, thought to have been with separatist group the Tamil Tigers, rammed a bus carrying riot police about 300 metres away.

‘This type of attack is happening all the time in Sri Lanka and thousands of people are being killed in this senseless war,’ she said. Ms Griffith said she was a relatively calm person, but the events of that day were something she would never forget.

Ms Griffith and four other people had travelled to Colombo for meetings with officials to discuss freight and tax matters. She thought one official was being pedantic and was initially annoyed that he had held the party up for about 10 minutes. ‘However, he might have saved our lives,’ she said. The attacker struck further along the road the group was due to use to take a volunteer to the airport for a flight to Singapore.