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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: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Sunday April 21 2019, @07:12PM (3 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday April 21 2019, @07:12PM (#833078) Journal

    From ari's original sub: "This submission only here to point out that the Islamophobic sub is fake news. Carry on." Missing his usual alt-right reference but carry on.

    In the words of Malcolm Reynolds, "That went well."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @07:47PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @07:47PM (#833092)

    In fairness, I didn't see the other sub but with basic facts being unknown at the time, you would have been entirely correct to call out any allegations not clearly marked as speculative.

    • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday April 23 2019, @07:48AM (1 child)

      by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday April 23 2019, @07:48AM (#833754) Journal

      Such are these days of illiteracy, that we have to actually link the video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfzlXcFbQ9I [youtube.com] We have no choice. Some people juggle geese.

      • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @05:53PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @05:53PM (#833955)

        Oh, we don't understand your cultural reference now? The attack was carried out by Islamists and it was clearly a mistake to have assumed good faith [twitter.com] on your part.