Sri Lanka observes two minutes of silence and priests ring church bells in memory of 2019 Easter attack victims amid Covid-19 social distancing
Funeral banners hang across the street in front of St Anthony's Shrine, days after a string of suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels across the island on Easter Sunday, in Colombo, Sri Lanka April 26, 2019.
More than 260 people were killed when three churches, two Catholic and one Protestant, came under simultaneous suicide bomb attacks during Easter celebrations on April 21, 2019. Public memorials organised to mark the anniversary were cancelled amid a rise in Covid-19 patients. Instead, church pastors were asked to ring bells and observe two minutes of silence be observed at the time of the bomb attacks.
“We are grateful to those friendly nations that generously shared the intelligence information prior to the attack on several occasions, which our political leaders unfortunately did not take seriously," said Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the Archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital. The police chief and the secretary to the defence ministry at the time of the attacks are facing legal action over alleged negligence.
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