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Sri Lanka Explosions: 137 Killed as Churches and Hotels Targeted

posted by martyb on Sunday April 21 2019, @12:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the RIP dept.

aristarchus writes:

According the Beeb (BBC):

At least 137 people have been killed and hundreds more injured in explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, police and hospital sources say.

At least eight blasts were reported. Three churches in Negombo, Batticaloa and Colombo's Kochchikade district were targeted during Easter services.

The Shangri-La, Kingsbury, Cinnamon Grand and a fourth hotel, all in Colombo, were also hit.

A curfew has been imposed from 18:00 to 06:00 local time (12:30-00:30 GMT).

The government also said there would a temporary block on the use of major social media networks.

No group has yet said it was responsible for the attacks.

Update:"At least 207 people have been killed and 450 hurt in explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, police say."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @02:37PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @02:37PM (#832951)

    If the people doing the bombing have the attitude that "White = Christian", then they may not know that Tarrant isn't Christian. Or they may not care. Tarrant is not the only crazy one out there.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @09:33PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @09:33PM (#833122)

    Emphasis mine

    If the people doing the bombing have the attitude that "White = Christian"

    You're assigning Christianity to all whites in your statement instead of comparing. You should use
    White == Christian.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @08:59AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @08:59AM (#833317)

      Would be strange, if God, who is an omnipotent, omniscient being, would create white people, except in the far north, where their lack of melanin and tolerance for sucking their mother's breasts well in to childhood could become adaptive features. But this is a very specific evolutionary niche. So, God cannot be white, and white people are not created in the image of God. The Semites, Arabs and Jews, have a much better claim to the imago Dei. Or even the Dravidians? Or the Sinhalese. God's not white, people, and god is definitely not male, since God is per definitio, perfect.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @12:44PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @12:44PM (#833355)

      Must be a Perl programmer, where the numbers of whites and Christians are being compared?
      Or bash perhaps?

      expr "$a" = "$b" does a number comparison if both operands are recognised as decimal integer numbers (some allowing blanks around the number), and otherwise checks if the two string operators have the same sorting order