'Panic mode': Witness describes aftermath of Sri Lanka bombs

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Over the course of the day, eight bombs exploded at churches and luxury hotels, killing more than 200 people

As a car carrying him pulled into the back entrance of the luxury Shangri-La Hotel in Sri Lanka’s capital of Colombo, he realized something was wrong.

“It was panic mode,” Harischandra, a 24-year-old founder of a tech marketing company, said by telephone later in the day. “I didn’t process it for a while.” Many Sri Lankans remember well the terror of the 26-year war. But not Harischandra, who was just a teenager when it officially ended. Toward the end, the conflict was not in Colombo. Growing up, he was mostly aware of his parents’ anxiety about safety, not of actual fighting.“For them, it’s a bit of a different situation,” he said. “They’re afraid this might start racial violence.”

 

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