Police have arrested a suspect believed to be the person who is responsible for the bomb attack on a train at Wellawatta yesterday (4) morning.

According to police sources the suspect, J. Balasubramanium was apprehended at the road block at Irattaperiyakulam yesterday evening.

He has confessed to the police that he had placed the bomb at the instructions of the LTTE and that he received it from another LTTE agent in Modera, Colombo.