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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.
Postal stamps worth five rupees were issued by the Sri Lankan government to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the church on 13 June 2010. 2019 attack. On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, the church was one in a series of targets of a string of suicide bomb blasts across Sri Lanka. At least 93 people were killed in the blast.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Navaly church bombing - At least 125 civilians died when on 9 July 1995, the Sri Lanka Air Force struck the Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Navaly. 1999 Puthukkudiyiruppu bombing - On 15 September, the Sri Lanka Air Force bombed a town under the control of the LLTE, killing at least 21. Padahuthurai bombing - On 2 January 2007, the Sri ...
Background. The bombs set off by Islamist militants on Easter Sunday 2019 caused widespread panic fueled by fake news and misinformation about the security situation, specifically targeting the Muslim minority in Sri Lanka. The government reacted by blocking access to social media channels [5] which they claimed were being used by mobs to ...