World Trade Center (Colombo)

The World Trade Center is a 152m tall twin building in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The towers 39-storey towers are built over a 4-storey retail podium, and thus each tower has a total floor count of 43. WTCC is run by Overseas Realty Ceylon PLC .The WTCC was opened on 12 October 1997 by then President of Sri Lanka Chandrika Kumaratunga. In the later years of the Sri-Lankan civil war, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam attacked the WTCC twice. A truck bomb in 1997 killed 15 people.