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  2. 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. St. Anthony's Shrine, Kochchikade - Wikipedia

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    The enlarged church was consecrated on 16 February 1940. 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.

  4. St. Sebastian's Church, Katuwapitiya - Wikipedia

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    Surviving statue of Risen Jesus with blast marks and human blood after the Easter attack. 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, UNICEF reported that 27 children died and 10 children were injured.

  5. Sri Lanka bomb attacks were revenge for New Zealand ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. Sri Lanka bomb attacks kill over 200 people - AOL

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    Easter Sunday bomb blasts at three Sri Lankan churches and three luxury hotels killed hundreds of people and wounded more than 400, ... News. Need help? Call us! 800-290-4726. Login / Join. Mail ...

  7. 1998 Temple of the Tooth attack - Wikipedia

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    To undermine preparations for the 50th independence day anniversary of Sri Lanka. 1998 Temple of the Tooth attack was an attack on the Temple of the Tooth Relic, located in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The shrine, which is considered to be important to the Buddhists in Sri Lanka, houses the relic of the tooth of the Buddha, and is also a UNESCO designated ...

  8. Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu - Wikipedia

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    Style. Baroque Revival. The Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu is a Roman Catholic Marian shrine in Mannar district of Sri Lanka. With a history of more than 400 years, the shrine acts as a center of pilgrimage and worship for Sri Lankan Catholics. [1] The site is considered as the holiest Catholic shrine in the island [2] and is a well known place of ...

  9. Colombo Central Bank bombing - Wikipedia

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    The attack took place on 31 January 1996, in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo. A lorry containing about 440 pounds of high explosives crashed through the main gate of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, a seaside high-rise which managed most of the financial business of the country. As gunmen traded fire with security guards, the suicide bomber in the ...