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Easter Sunday Bomb blasts at churches and hotels leave dozens dead and injured in Sri Lanka (video)
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Easter Sunday Bomb blasts at churches and hotels leave dozens dead and injured in Sri Lanka (video)

    Dozens of people have been killed in a series of Easter Sunday explosions targeting churches and hotels in Sri Lanka. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6po8GaHCOQ The near-simultaneous blasts, two of which were suspected to have been carried out by suicide bombers, are thought to have killed 138 people and injured more than 500. St Anthony's Shrine and the three luxury hotels where the blasts took place are in Colombo, and are frequented by foreign tourists. Early reports suggest nine tourists were killed in the blasts. The Zion Church in the eastern town of Batticaloa and St Sebastian's in Katuwapitiya, north of Colombo, were also targeted. A seventh blast was recently reported in Dehiwela near the Sri Lanka capital. A police spokesman said that there were blast...