Easter Sunday Bombings

• Sri Lanka Easter bombings leader died in hotel attack, police say

  The suspected leader of the militant group Sri Lankan authorities said carried out a series of Easter Sunday bombings died in the blast at the Shangri-La hotel, one of six hotels and churches targeted in the attacks that killed at least 250 people, officials said Friday.

  World

  Apr 26, 2019
  
• Father of suspected Sri Lanka Easter bombers arrested on suspicion of aiding his sons

  The father of two of the suspected Easter suicide bombers was arrested on suspicion of aiding his sons on Thursday, according to Sri Lanka's former navy chief, as investigators continued to comb his Colombo mansion for evidence of the attacks that killed 359 people.

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  Apr 25, 2019
  
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• Candlelight vigil held in Edmonton following Sri Lanka bombings: ‘We are here for you’

  A candlelight vigil was held at the Alberta legislature grounds Monday night to honour those who lost their lives in a series of bombing in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.

  Canada

  Apr 22, 2019
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• Van explodes near Sri Lanka church while police try to defuse bomb: witness

  An explosion went off on Monday in a van near a church in Sri Lanka where scores were killed the previous day, when bomb squad officials were trying to defuse it, a Reuters witness said.

  World

  Apr 22, 2019
• Sri Lanka failed to heed warnings of bombings that killed 290 people: official

  Sri Lankan officials failed to heed warnings from intelligence agencies about the threat of an attack by a domestic radical Muslim group that officials blame for Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 200 people, the country’s health minister said Monday.

  World

  Apr 22, 2019