Raids and police curfews have shut down areas of eastern Sri Lanka, and Catholic leaders have canceled Sunday Masses indefinitely. Officials also urged Muslims to stay home for prayers.
Yashwant Kumar Singh, 23, a worker from India, said he wants to go back to his homeland because he fears another attack."If it only happened on one day, then that wouldn't have been so difficult, but bombs are going off here every day. That is why there is an atmosphere of fear. We are feeling very scared," he said.
Authorities told Muslims to worship at home rather than attend communal Friday prayers that are the most important religious service of the week, but several mosques held services anyway. At a mosque in Colombo, police armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles stood guard outside for hundreds of worshippers.
Abdul Azeez Abdul Sattar, 63, an auto-rickshaw driver, said a man in his neighborhood refused to hire him, telling him,"You are a terrorist; you have a bomb. I won't take your auto." "People are shocked, because this came years after the war ended, and after all these years, we have been living in peace," said Pradeep Kumara, 36, a clerk at a private company, referring to Sri Lanka's long civil war, which ended in 2009."This has disrupted our work, and our ordinary and normal life. We don't want to go back to that troublesome period."
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