"I saw a small kid's hand ... just half of the body" Sri Lanka blast victim recounts her horror

Ab Nirmala, one of the survivors of the Sri Lanka blast horror, recounts on how she found her daughter alive amidst body parts and bloody corpses when a car exploded outside her home on  Sunday.

She had been among the people gathered to celebrate Easter in the morning mass in St. Antony's church on Sunday. "There was a loud sound and I turned to see. Something huge fell from above and there was a big fire burning. I was shocked, for 15 minutes I didn't know what was happening and didn't even look for my daughter," Nirmala, a seamstress, told Reuters.

"I was looking for my daughter but when I found her she could not recognise me. She didn't know who her mummy was. She said 'God saved me,' 'God got me and my mother out safely.'" Nirmala described the horrific incident painting it in words.

"My slipper had a big piece of flesh - whose flesh I didn't know," she recalled. "I looked the other way and saw a small kid's hand and leg and blood and just half the body and head, I looked away and came back. I came home after seeing that and my mind was in total shock."

"I won't go to the church because I'm very scared to go. I don't know what is going to happen to me," she said. "Also, my husband isn't here, he's in the U.K. I want to take all my children and go there because I'm very scared to stay here."

Police said on Wednesday that the death toll from the attacks on churches and hotels had risen to 359 and over 500 people have been injured.