About 500 people are injured and at least 35 foreigners are among the dead.
The Easter Sunday bombings were the deadliest violence Sri Lanka has witnessed since the end of the country’s civil war in 2009. Late on Sunday, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said security services had been “aware of information” of possible attacks but that the information had not been acted upon.The first reports of explosions came at about 08:45 local time with six blasts reported within a small space of time.Three churches in Negombo, Batticaloa and Colombo’s Kochchikade district were targeted during Easter services.All the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers, reports said.
The air force said an improvised explosive device – a 6ft-long [1.8m] plastic pipe packed with explosives – had been found and disposed of near the country’s main airport in the capital, Colombo.The government has urged people not to speculate about who could be behind the attacks and restricted access to social media in the aftermath of the bombings.
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