alex arrow had been trying to reach his only child kieran at one of them, the cinnamon grand hotel. >> couldn't pick up the phone, and he texted me back "can't talk right now." because he was in the elevator going to breakfast. >> reporter: kieran was in sri lanka visiting his mother on that fateful morning. >> he got a shrapnel wound that pierced his heart. it could have been a foot or two in either direction and it would have been totally different. he bled out in the restaurant. there's not a damn thing i can do for him in sri lanka. >> reporter: and even then the terror wasn't over. hours later two more explosions, one at a hotel just south of colombo and a final one in the suburbs of the capital when a suspect being questioned by police detonated a suicide bomb. eight explosions in total. an overwhelming number of deaths. within hours sri lankan security services apprehended at least 24 suspects and a nuclemurky pictu began to emerge of who authorities say are behind these attacks. sri lankan tv showing security footage being investigated by police that purports to show one of th