April 21
ours after six simultaneous and coordinated explosions rocked churches and luxury hotels rocked Sri Lanka’s Colombo on Easter Sunday, two more blasts hit the capital city, killing two people, police said. The first blast occurred at a hotel near Dehiwala Zoo in Colombo.
The death toll in the Sri Lanka serial blasts has reached 187.
At least two people have reportedly died in the latest blast at a hotel, a police spokesperson said. The injured have been taken to Kalubowila Hospital.
The hotel is said to be in close proximity to the zoo which was closed for the public after the serial blasts.
This was the eighth blast that has taken place in Sri Lanka’s Colombo on Sunday.
According to the reports, the Sri Lankan police had alerted the nation about ten days before Sunday’s serial blasts. The police had warned that the terrorists would target prominent churches across the island nation.
Security had also been increased shortly after the alert. The police were also alerted about a suspected suicide bomber in Colombo.
The latest attack at a hotel near Dehiwala Zoo in Colombo has been reported just hours after a total of six blasts were carried out in the city. At least 185 people lost their lives in a series of blasts targetted at churches and hotels.
The blasts left over 500 people injured.
The blasts targeted St Anthony’s Church in Colombo, St Sebastian’s Church in the western coastal town of Negombo and another church in the eastern town of Batticaloa around 8.45 a.m. (local time) as the Easter Sunday mass were in progress, police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said.