2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings
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2019-sri-lanka-easter-bombings-174-3682729
title:
2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings
text:
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. A total of 269 people were killed, including at least 45 foreign nationals, three police officers, and eight suicide bombers. An additional 500 were injured. The church bombings were
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Series of suicide bombings
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sri_Lanka_Easter_bombings
date created:
2019-04-21T05:05:52Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T02:33:52Z
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