St Sebastian's church: A day after Sri Lanka explosions
Authorities comb through St Sebastian's church in Sri Lanka's Negombo as the death toll from Sunday's bomb blasts that ripped through churches and luxury hotels in the country rose dramatically Monday to 290. IMAGES
Sri Lanka: Morning breaks at St Sebastian's church
Morning breaks at St Sebastian's Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka, where dozens of people were killed in an explosion on Easter Sunday. The government on Tuesday imposed a state of emergency hours after it blamed a local Islamist group for a series of suicide bomb blasts that killed at least 290 people, including dozens of foreigners.
Recovery efforts underway at the St Sebastian Catholic Church in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Recovery efforts were underway at the St Sebastian Catholic Church on Monday, one of the locations hit by a series of blasts in Sri Lanka that killed 290 people and wounded more than 500.
The string of bombings tore through churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday. St Sebastian church in Negombo is located north of the capital.
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Sri Lanka church services cancelled amid fears of further terrorist attacks
Sundays in the majority Catholic city of Negombo are normally marked by services of worship.
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But this Sunday - a week on from the attack on the city's St Sebastian Church, in which dozens were killed - the faithful had to pray for the dead at home. Weekend masses were canceled amidst fears that Islamist extremists are still at large, as security forces continued to search addresses across the country. Some of the city's children are still learning to cope with the loss of both their parents.
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CCTV footage shows Sri Lanka bombing suspect
CCTV footage shows a man carrying a rucksack walking and entering St Sebastian's Church in Negombo on Easter Sunday. At least 321 people were killed by suicide bomb blasts on that ripped through three hotels and three churches as worshippers attended Easter services. CCTV IMAGES
Sri Lanka: Footage of alleged Sri Lanka church bomber emerges
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New footage released on Tuesday shows the alleged bomber approaching and entering the St. Sebastian Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka, moments before an explosion killed hundreds on Sunday.
The footage, released by St. Sebastian Church, shows a man wearing a backpack, approaching the altar in the crowded church.
At least 321 people were killed and a further 450 were injured on Sunday, during Easter weekend, in eight seemingly coordinated explosions which rocked hotels and churches across the country.
Six blasts took place in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo while two further explosions occurred in the western city of Negombo and the eastern city of Batticaloa.
A Sri Lankan government spokesperson admitted during a press conference in Colombo on Monday that there had been warnings from intelligence agencies about possible terrorist attacks on Christian targets in the country.
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Sri Lanka: Memorial mass held for Negombo church bombing victims
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Hundreds of people gathered for a memorial mass at St Sebastian's Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on Tuesday, in advance of a mass funeral for the victims of Sunday's bombings in over 300 people died.
In total, at least 321 people were killed and a further 450 were injured after eight explosions rocked hotels and churches across Sri Lanka on Sunday.
Six blasts took place in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo while two further explosions occurred in the western city of Negombo and the eastern city of Batticaloa.
A Sri Lankan government spokesperson admitted during a press conference in Colombo on Monday that there had been warnings from intelligence agencies about possible terrorist attacks on Christian targets in the country.
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CCTV footage shows suspected suicide bomber entering Sri Lankan church
A CCTV footage revealed a suspected suicide bomber entering St Sebastian's church in Negombo on Sunday moments before the blast, which killed more than 300 people.
Sri Lanka President Visits Bombed Church Damaged on Easter Sunday
Sri Lanka's president Maithripala Sirisena visits the bombed St. Sebastian Church with Catholic priests in Negombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, April 23. Surveillance camera footage obtained by local media has emerged showing a suspected suicide bomber entering the St. Sebastian Church carrying a large backpack before the attack on Easter Sunday. The Islamic State group said Tuesday, without providing evidence, that it was responsible for the series of blasts in Sri Lanka that killed more than 300 people and injured hundreds of others on Easter Sunday. Sri Lanka's state minister of defense told parliament that those who carried out the attacks did so retaliation for attacks at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand last month.
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 bomb attacks: Prayers outside St Sebastian's blast site
People come to St Sebastian's church, one of the sites hit in the Sri Lankan Easter attacks to pay respects, offer prayers and distribute tea to soldiers standing guard
Grieving Father Found Daughter, Wife Inside Bombed Sri Lanka Church | NBC News
In an emotional interview, Sudesh Kolonne recalled how he had walked out of St. Sebastian’s Church just minutes before the blast and when he ran back inside, he found his wife and daughter dead on the floor.
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Sri Lanka: Misa en memoria de víctimas de los atentados en una iglesia
Centenares de personas se han reunido en la iglesia de San Sebastián en Negombo (Sri Lanka) para recordar a las víctimas de los atentados del 21 de abril. La explosión en este templo fue la más mortífera de la serie de ataques perpetrados en distintas ciudades del país, cobrándose más de un centenar de vidas.
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Sri Lanka Easter attacks: Who is responsible? | DW News
People in Sri Lanka are marking a national day of mourning in the aftermath of the Easter Sunday bombing attacks on churches and luxury hotels. Relatives of some of the victims gathered for a mass funeral at St Sebastian's church in Negombo, one of three churches hit in Sunday's attacks. Negombo is a small fishing town at the heart of Sri Lanka's small Catholic community. More than a thousand people gathered to pay their respects. Earlier, the nation observed three minutes of silence at 8:30 am local time, which is the moment when the first in a series of bombs detonated on Sunday morning. The death toll has now risen to 321. Intelligence chiefs reportedly warned police of a possible attack by local jihadist group National Thowheeth Jama'ath. But those reports apparently never reached Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and his cabinet. That revelation has the country searching for answers after a day of carnage that just might have been averted.
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Sri Lanka attacks: Sky visits scene of the deadliest bombing
The worst-hit of the three churches attacked in Sri Lanka was St Sebastian in Negombo, just north of the capital Colombo.
Sky News's Dominic Waghorn visited the scene to hear first hand what happened.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said authorities were aware of information of possible attacks but the intelligence was not acted upon.
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CCTV footage shows suspected Sri Lanka suicide bomber entering church
New footage has emerged appearing to show a suspected suicide bomber entering St Sebastian's church in Negombo. The subsequent explosion was the deadliest of the series of coordinated bombings in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing more than 50 people. The footage was broadcast widely on Sri Lankan news channels
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Archbishop of Colombo condemns attacks
Blasts have been reported at Saint Sebastian's Church in Negombo, a majority Catholic town north of Colombo and at Zion Church in the eastern town of Batticaloa. The Archbishop of Colombo, who leads those churches, condemned the attacks.
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CCTV footage of Sri Lanka suicide bombing suspects
WATCH: CCTV footage of the Sri Lanka suicide bombing suspects show them calmly entering hotels and the St Sebastian church. More than 350 people have died in the series of attacks on Easter Sunday.
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Catholic town hit by Sri Lanka blast in mourning
(22 Apr 2019) The Sri Lankan fishing town of Negombo was a town in mourning on Monday after a bomb blast ripped through St. Sebastian's Church on Easter Sunday, one of a half-dozen coordinated attacks on churches and high-end hotels that killed nearly 300 people.
Negombo, a Catholic majority town north of Colombo, is home to 140,000 people and has dozens of churches and perhaps hundreds of small roadside Catholic shrines.
At least 110 were killed at St. Sebastian's, making it the day's most deadly bombing.
Father Neville Fernando, a priest at the church, said he ran in straight after the blast and saw dead bodies and a panicked congregation.
Sanjeevani Roshan's younger brother was among those killed in the blast. He told The Associated Press his brother left behind a wife and a young daughter, who now have no permanent home.
The targets of the bombings included two Catholic churches — St. Sebastian's and St. Anthony's Shrine in a Colombo suburb — and the Protestant Zion Church in the eastern coastal city of Batticaloa.
The attacks surprised many in Sri Lanka, where the small Christian community, which totals roughly 7% of the population, has long avoided involvement in the country's bitter ethnic and religious divides.
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Negombo grieves, lays victims of church bombing to rest
(23 Apr 2019) A mass funeral service was held on Tuesday at the St. Sebastian Church, where just two days ago, an explosion killed at least 110, and left a minority Catholic community in tatters.
Coffins carrying the bodies of people killed in the Sunday morning explosion poured into the church with grieving family members in tow.
While a top Sri Lanka official said the bombings that killed 321 people were carried out in retaliation of a gun attack at mosques in New Zealand, the Islamic State group sought to claim responsibility for the bombings.
Negombo is called Little Rome for its abundance of churches and a strong Catholic community.
On Monday, white flags and strips hung over the city in solidarity with the victims' families and as a message of peace.
Herman Peiris, a Negombo resident who lost his two sisters and two nieces in the bombing, said people in the community were now afraid to go to church.
He said his two sisters, Celine and Elizabeth were very involved with the church and spent most of their free time there.
Peiris said the ruler of the country should take blame and asked for more security.
As Sri Lanka's leaders wrangled to look for solutions, security was heightened for a national day of mourning and soldiers from the Army, Air Force and Navy were deployed across the country.
Sri Lanka's president gave the military a wider berth to detain and arrest suspects — powers that were used during the 26-year civil war but withdrawn when it ended in 2009.
Peiris, despite losing four members of his family, appealed for peace.
We have lot of Tamils, Sinhalese, Muslims, Burgher and we are friends actually. We can't separate, 'you're Muslim go out, you're Tamil, go out,' no, that can't do. We need peaceful situation here.
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