While Christians all over the world are celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, Easter, faraway in Sri Lanka, hundreds of innocent worshippers and individuals are feared dead.The toll in a string of blasts on Sunday at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka has risen to at least 215, including 35 foreigners, a police official told AFP.

A hospital source said Americans, British and Dutch citizens were among those killed in the six blasts, which also injured 450 others.As irritating as it sounds, it turns out that this is the seventh attack to hit the country on Sunday.

The earlier six blasts targeted three Sri Lankan churches and three luxury hotels, wounding more than 450, hospital and police officials said, following a lull in major attacks since the end of the civil war 10 years ago, according to Reuters.In just one church, St. Sebastian’s in Katuwapitiya, north of Colombo, more than 50 people had been killed, a police official told Reuters, with pictures showing bodies on the ground, blood on the pews and a destroyed roof.

Media reported 25 people were also killed in an attack on a church in Batticaloa in Eastern Province.The three hotels hit were the Shangri-La Colombo, Kingsbury Hotel and Cinnamon Grand Colombo. It was unclear whether there were any casualties in the hotels.Nine foreigners were among the dead, the officials said.


Why Sri Lanka? The Strength of Christians there?

Out of Sri Lanka’s total population of around 22 million, 70 percent are Buddhist, 12.6 percent Hindu, 9.7 percent Muslim, and 7.6 percent Christian, according to the country’s 2012 census.

In its 2018 report on Sri Lanka’s human rights, the US State Department noted that some Christian groups and churches reported they had been pressured to end worship activities after authorities classified them as “unauthorized gatherings.”


Meanwhile, countries across the globe, including India, the US, Russia, Germany, France, New Zealand, Pakistan and Bangladesh, expressed shock and condemnation over the deadly blasts.

President Ram Nath Kovind and PM Narendra Modi said New Delhi stood in solidarity with the island nation. Pakistan PM Imran Khan tweeted that his country "stood in complete solidarity with Sri Lanka in its hour of grief".


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May ALLAAH guide us and save us from all this extremist

you people should have in Mind that Islam is the religion of peace. its just the media trying to paint islam Black.

falcon01:
you people should have in Mind that Islam is the religion of peace. its just the media trying to paint islam Black.

Great. One day I shall write about what you are saying. Terrorism has it roots

RIP, check well its an islamic group, i swear just wait and see .