Mysuru, April 25 -- Fourteen members of a family of five Geologists who were on a tour of Sri Lanka and escaped the deadly bomb attack on Apr.21, returned safely to the city last night. It was a providential escape for them as they suddenly took a decision to move from Colombo where they had landed on Apr.19 and instead see other tourist places before returning to Colombo for shopping and flying out on Apr.24.

Speaking to Star of Mysore here this morning, tour organiser H.N. Umesha said that they were a team of five geologists who toured to different parts of the country or abroad every year and this year they planned a trip to Sri Lanka.

"As soon as we landed in Colombo on Apr.19, we realised that there was nothing much to see there and ...