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On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital, Colombo, were targeted in a series of coordinated ISIS -related terrorist suicide bombings. Later that day, two smaller explosions occurred at a housing complex in Dematagoda and a guest house in Dehiwala.
The Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the Easter Attacks is a Presidential Commission of Inquiry in to the deadly Easter bomb attacks appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena on 21 April 2019 tasked with investigating the causes and background for the bombings. The commission is headed by Vijith Malalgoda, Puisne Justice of the Supreme ...
Easter Sunday bomb blasts at three Sri Lankan churches and three luxury hotels killed hundreds of people and wounded more than 400, officials say. Sri Lanka bomb attacks kill over 200 people Skip ...
Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bomb attacks were retaliation for a recent attack on mosques in New Zealand, a Sri Lankan official said on Tuesday, adding that two domestic Islamist groups were believed ...
13−26 September − 2019 Sri Lanka floods: At least two persons are reported dead and 282 houses are completely damaged due to floods in Colombo, Galle and Matara. [31] [32] 16 September − Sri Lanka and South Asia's tallest tower, the Lotus Tower, is declared open following a grand opening ceremony. [33]
Sri Lanka has filed 23,270 charges against 25 people in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks on churches and hotels that killed 269 people, the president’s office said ...
On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, the church was one in a series of targets of a string of bomb blasts across Sri Lanka. Media reported at least 93 people killed at the church, [3] UNICEF reported that 27 children died and 10 children were injured. [4]
The Bandaranaike International Airport attack was a suicide raid Black Tigers of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on 24 July 2001 on the Sri Lanka Air Force base SLAF Katunayake and the adjoining Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake, Sri Lanka. The attack was one of the boldest the LTTE mounted during its war with the Sri ...