At least 321 people were killed in the country’s worst violence in a decade
A grieving woman is supported during a funeral service attended by Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith for Easter Sunday bomb blast victims, at St. Sebastian Church, in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on April 23, 2019.Sri Lankans wept and prayed on Tuesday as they buried their dead from suicide bomb attacks on churches holding Easter services and luxury hotels that killed 321 people in the country’s worst violence in a decade.
Pall-bearers wearing white carried in wooden coffins one by one, followed by distraught relatives. They gathered around the coffins, crying and comforting each other. Some needed help after they were overcome by grief and the heat. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the co-ordinated attacks on three churches and three luxury hotels. The bombings were retaliation for attacks on mosques in New Zealand, a Sri Lankan official said.
“We are all shell shocked. Everyone is afraid for their lives, afraid that after so many years of peace the ghosts of the past will come back,” Weramunda said.
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