Several Americans killed in coordinated attacks in Sri Lanka, Pompeo says, blaming 'radical terrorists'
By Amantha Perera and Joanna Slater Joanna Slater Foreign correspondent covering South Asia Email Bio Follow April 21 at 12:42 PM Explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka killed more than 200 people and injured 450 Sunday. This is what we know so far:● Secertary of State Mike Pompeo says “several” Americans killed COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Suicide bombers struck churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing more than 200 people and injuring 450.
Ruwan Wijewardene, Sri Lanka’s minister for defense, said the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers. All of the explosions occurred between 8:45 and 9:30 a.m. Three police officers were killed in a “scuffle” at a house in the Demtagoda area of Colombo, police said. They had gone to the house to interrogate an individual.
Images from inside St. Anthony’s Kochchikade, the largest Roman Catholic congregation in Colombo, showed shattered wooden pews and floors stained with blood. 1 of 19 Full Screen Autoplay Close Skip Ad × The scene in Sri Lanka after explosions kill more than 200 View Photos The coordinated blasts ripped through three churches in the cities of Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa at approximately 8:45 a.m. as worshipers gathered on Easter Sunday. Caption The coordinated blasts ripped through three churches in the cities of Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa at approximately 8:45 a.m. as worshipers gathered on Easter Sunday.
A relative of a victim of the explosion at St. Anthony's Shrine, Kochchikade church, reacts at the police mortuary in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka, a popular tourism destination, has been largely peaceful since the end of its long-running civil war a decade ago. The country has seen intermittent conflict between religious groups, but nothing remotely on the scale of Sunday’s attacks.
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