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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."
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday April 21 2019, @07:11PM (1 child)
Suicide missions actually can be seen as rituals in a cult on its own, pre-dating Islam IIRC. It would explain why some guys try to bypass airport security with explosives, when their organization still likely owns some SAM from afghan soviet resistance, and could fire them near the airport where the planes are easy to catch.
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @07:39PM
Some people claim that the explosion of TWA Flight 800, which went down in 1996, was not caused by a spark in a fuel tank, but by a missile. If that missile was from a terrorist-operated boat, as some believe, then the government's denial of it being a terrorist act actually makes some sense, as you wouldn't want to give the terrorists the media coverage that the act was supposed to generate.
However, the denial of that (possible) terrorist act helps explain why both of the Towers were hit by planes on 9/11, with a delay in between the strikes. It was to make sure there were plenty of media camera already trained on the towers when the second plane hit -- making it impossible to claim it was not a terrorist act.
Perhaps this is why terrorists don't bother to use SAMs to attack airplanes. They already did, and it didn't work, as the authorities can too easily claim it was just an accident.