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Sunday, April 21, 2019

Update: 140 dead, over 500 injured in six explosions on Easter


Here are the updates from Sri Lanka:
  • In St. Sebastian's in Katuwapitiya Colombo, more than 50 people had been killed. 
  • Media reported 25 people were also killed in the attack on a church in Batticaloa in Eastern Province.
  • Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe condemns the cowardly attack.

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Sri Lanka's police chief made a nationwide alert 10 days before Sunday's bomb attacks in the country that suicide bombers planned to hit "prominent churches", according to the warning seen by AFP.

"A foreign intelligence agency has reported that the NTJ (National Thowheeth Jama'ath) is planning to carry out suicide attacks targeting prominent churches as well as the Indian high commission in Colombo," said the alert. 

The NTJ is a radical Muslim group in Sri Lanka that came to notice last year when it was linked to the vandalization of Buddhist statues. 

Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attacks yet. The country was at war for decades with Tamil separatists during which bomb blasts in the capital were common.



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