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In pictures: Sri Lanka blasts kills 290 at churches and hotels
A series of eight devastating bomb blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka on Sunday.
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe (C) arrives to visit the site of a bomb attack at St. Anthony’s Shrine in Kochchikade in Colombo on April 21, 2019.
Security personnel inspect the interior of St. Sebastian’s Church in Negombo on April 22, 2019, a day after the church was hit in series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka.
At least 290 are now known to have died in a series of bomb blasts that tore through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka, in the worst violence to hit the island since its devastating civil war ended a decade ago.
A general view of the Kingsbury Hotel targeted earlier in the day by a blast in Colombo on April 21, 2019.
Sri Lankan hospital workers transport a body on a trolley at a hospital morgue following an explosion at a church in Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka on April 21, 2019.
A series of eight devastating bomb blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lankan Special Task Force (STF) personnel are pictured outside a house during a raid — after a suicide blast had killed police searching the property — in the Orugodawatta area of the capital Colombo on April 21, 2019, following a series of blasts in churches and hotels.
Sri Lankan security forces secure the area around St. Anthony’s Shrine after an explosion hit St Anthony’s Church in Kochchikade on April 21, 2019 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Sri Lankan officials inspect St Sebastians Church in Negombo north of Colombo after multiple explosions targeting churches and hotels across Sri Lanka on April 21 2019 in Negombo, Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan security personnel keep watch outside the church premises following a blast at the St Anthonys Shrine in Kochchikade, Colombo on April 21 2019.
