24 arrested as Sri Lanka probes blasts
Security forces patrolling near the damaged Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo today. – EPA pic, April 22, 2019.
THE death toll from bomb blasts that ripped through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka rose dramatically today to 290 – including dozens of foreigners – as police announced new arrests over the country’s worst attacks in more than a decade. More than 500 people were injured in the Easter Sunday assault that saw suicide bombers hit three high-end hotels popular with foreign tourists, and three churches, unleashing carnage in Colombo and beyond.
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