290 killed in Sri Lanka series blasts

LANKA reels from horror

Sri Lanka said yesterday it was invoking emergency powers in the aftermath of devastating bomb attacks on hotels and churches, blamed on militants with foreign links, in which 290 people were killed and nearly 500 wounded.

Blast as police try to defuse new bomb found near Colombo church: Police

An explosion went off in a van near a church in Colombo, Sri Lanka, a day after scores were killed there, when bomb squad officials were trying to defuse the device, a police spokesman says.

April 23, 2019
April 23, 2019

LANKA reels from horror

Sri Lanka said yesterday it was invoking emergency powers in the aftermath of devastating bomb attacks on hotels and churches, blamed on militants with foreign links, in which 290 people were killed and nearly 500 wounded.

April 22, 2019
April 22, 2019

Blast as police try to defuse new bomb found near Colombo church: Police

An explosion went off in a van near a church in Colombo, Sri Lanka, a day after scores were killed there, when bomb squad officials were trying to defuse the device, a police spokesman says.