Sri Lanka Easter bombings

Coordinated suicide attacks on churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka killed 290 people, including 32 foreigners, and wounded more than 500


Targets: St Anthony’s Shrine (pictured), Colombo; St. Sebastian’s, Negombo; Zion Church, Batticaloa; Kingsbury Hotel, Shangri-La Hotel, and Cinnamon Grand in Colombo. There were two explosions during police raids in Colombo, and a pipe bomb was defused near Colombo’s main airport on Sunday night

Around 7.6 percent of mainly Buddhist Sri Lanka is Catholic


INDIA
INDIAN OCEAN
SRI LANKA
Batticaloa
Negombo
Colombo
Dehiwala

80km 50 miles


Sources: AFP, Reuters 
Picture: Getty Images
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