Multiple blasts in Sri Lanka kill over 130 people and injure hundreds on Easter Sunday
A relative of a victim of the explosion at St Anthony's Shrine, Kochchikade church reacts at the police mortuary in Colombo, Sri Lanka. April 21, 2019.
The nature of all the explosions was not immediately clear. However, a security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to reporters said he suspected at least two of the earlier blasts were caused by suicide bombers.addressing the press just now says action will be taken to stop activity of all extremist groups in the country. Social media temporary banned. 12 hour curfew from 6pm.
Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said the blast hit a hotel in the southern Colombo suburb of Dehiwala, near the national zoo. Media reported 25 people were also killed in an attack on a church in Batticaloa in Eastern Province. "I strongly condemn the cowardly attacks on our people today," he said in a tweet from his verified account.
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