Sri Lanka: Day breaks at St Anthony's church
Sun rises over St Anthony's church in Colombo, Sri Lanka, one of the blast sites in the Easter Sunday blasts that took at least 290 lives. Authorities imposed on Tuesday a state of emergency hours after blaming a local Islamist group for the attacks, with 24 people arrested so far. IMAGES
Sky sees the carnage inside the Colombo church targeted by suicide bomber
The human toll may have been removed but St Anthony's Shrine in Colombo is a devastating place to visit, reports Tom Cheshire.
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St. Anthony’s Shrine, Kochchikade reopens following attacks
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Sri Lanka: St. Anthony's shrine briefly reopens for prayers after Easter bombings
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St. Anthony's shrine partially reopened for worship in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on Tuesday, which has been closed since it became one of the sites attacked and damaged in the Easter Sunday bombings that claimed 253 lives and left more than 500 injured.
Worshippers were allowed inside a small portion of the church for a period of 12 hours, and lined up before a statue of St. Anthony while heavily armed security forces stood outside. People also received the blessing of local priests and lit candles outside the church.
St. Anthony's shrine was one of the religious sites targeted in Easter Sunday's coordinated attacks, alongside the Catholic Church of St. Sebastian in Negombo, the evangelical Zion Church in Batticaloa and three luxury hotels in the capital. More than 50 people are reported to have been killed at St. Anthony's alone.
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Bomb explodes as police attempt to diffuse it near St. Anthony’s Church in Kochchikade
On Monday, an explosion occurred down the road from St Anthony’s Church in Kochchikade, the site of one of eight explosions on Sunday. A witness told Reuters that it went off when police attempted to diffuse it.…
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Moment blast hits Sri Lanka church
Dashcam footage captures the moment an explosion hit St Anthony's Shrine in Colombo. More than 200 people were killed after a wave of apparently coordinated blasts hit the Sri Lanka capital. (Video: AP)
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Sri Lanka attacks: Suspect arrested after second explosion outside Colombo church
Local Sri Lankan media reports that the suspected driver of a van that exploded Monday outside St. Anthony's Church has been arrested. The van blew up as officials attempted to defuse the van's bomb.
St. Anthony's Church was one of nine buildings targeted in terror attacks that rocked the island nation on Easter Sunday.
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First access inside St Antony's church since blast
(26 Apr 2019) Media cameras and journalists have been allowed inside St. Anthony's church for the first time since it was bombed in an Easter Sunday attack in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo.
Footage captured by the Associated Press on Friday showed shattered glass, footwear, personal possessions and other debris across the inside of the building.
The church was one of several sites which were targeted on Sunday, resulting in the deaths of at least 250 people.
More than 50 people have been detained by police in connection with the attack.
Sri Lankan officials say they continue to search for suspects in the bombings.
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St Anthony's priest recounts day of bombing
(27 Apr 2019) The administrator of St Anthony's Church recounted on Saturday the moment a bomb went off during Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday attacks.
The building was among several sites, mostly churches and hotels, which were targeted in an Islamic State group-claimed attack, resulting in the deaths of at least 250 people.
Father Jude Raj Fernando said he watched CCTV of the moments before the suicide bomber carried out the attack.
He was nervous a little bit and he was just trying to walk here and there but he couldn't move, Fernando said.
Catholic leaders have cancelled Sunday Masses indefinitely as a result of the bombings.
Officials also urged Muslims to stay home for prayers in an extraordinary call by the clergy to curtail worship.
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New explosion near St Anthony's Church in Colombo
(22 Apr 2019) A new explosion went off near St Anthony's Church in Colombo on Monday, following a series of bombings that killed more than 200 people on Easter Sunday.
A van parked near the church that was bombed on Easter Sunday exploded, but no injuries have been reported.
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Sri Lanka Easter Sunday Church Bombing Victims Mourned by Their Families
Families, grieving for those killed in the Easter Sunday bombings, gather in front of one of the churches that was attacked, St. Anthony’s Shrine, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, April 22. The bombings killed at least 290 people and wounded more than 500 others in one of the deadliest attacks the country has seen since its civil war ended a decade ago.
Sri Lanka: Mourners set up vigil outside bombed St Anthony's Church in Colombo
A group of mourners set up a vigil outside St. Anthony's Church in Colombo on Monday, just a day after the deadly Easter bombings.
The mourners were seen placing flowers, candles and written messages beneath the statue of Saint Anthony.
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People hold a vigil outside St. Anthony's Shrine
People in Sri Lanka tearfully pray for the victims of the Easter attacks last week. Six suicide bombers hit three churches and three luxury hotels which left 253 dead. IMAGES of people holding a vigil outside St. Anthony's Shrine
First look inside Sri Lanka church since bombing
Media cameras and journalists have been allowed inside St. Anthony's church for the first time since it was bombed in an Easter Sunday attack in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo. (April 26)
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Colombo: Scene of van blast near St Anthony's church
A new explosion went off on Monday (April 22) in a van near a church in Sri Lanka where scores were killed the previous day…
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First Mass of reconstructed St. Anthony’s Church in Kochchikade (English)
First Mass of reconstructed St. Anthony’s Church in Kochchikade (English)
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Scene of van blast near St Anthony's church, Colombo
(22 Apr 2019) A van parked near a Sri Lankan church that was bombed on Easter Sunday has exploded, but no injuries have been reported.
Police went to inspect the van on Monday after people reported it had been parked near St. Anthony's Shrine since Sunday.
They discovered three bombs that they tried to defuse.
Instead, the bombs detonated, sending pedestrians fleeing in panic.
A series of bombings on Easter Sunday killed at least 290 people, including at least 27 foreigners.
About 500 others were wounded in the blasts.
Officials said 24 suspects are in custody for questioning
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At least 160 killed, 400 injured in multiple blasts in Sri Lanka
Multiple explosions have hit churches and hotels in Sri Lanka’s Colombo on Easter Sunday. The blasts occurred at around 8.45 a.m. (local time) as the Easter Sunday masses were in progress, police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said. At least 280 people have been reported injured. The first blast ripped through St. Anthony's Shrine in Colombo. A second explosion was reported at St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo, a Catholic majority town north of Colombo. Police rushed to all targeted areas and have sealed off the churches.
Sri Lanka's bombed church partially opens for prayers
Sri Lankan Catholic devotees pray at St. Anthony's church as it opens for the first time since the Easter Sunday attacks in Colombo.
Catholic church bombed in Sri Lanka attacks reopens | AFP
Devotees including some of the Easter attack survivors attend a prayer session as St Anthony's in Colombo reopens. It which was among the three churches hit by jihadi suicide bombers in coordinated attacks that also targeted three luxury hotels in the Sri Lankan capital on April 21.
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