Worshippers Return to Bombed Church after Calm

Sri Lankans have gone back to church days after a deadly attack occured on the Asian country’s capital city, Colombo.

The attack which claimed the lives of at least 250 people including some 39 foreigners was condemned world over as the largest attack of its kind since the end of Sri Lanka’s war against Tamil Tigers fighters.

Residents returned to St Anthony’s church in Colombo where a suicide bomber had detonated multiple bombs on worshippers during the Easter Sunday mass.

In the attack whose perpetrators were mostly educated members of high-end families in Colombo, the government noted it was a surprise to them.

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President Maithripala Sirisena

The attackers mainly targeted Christian churches and high-end hotels in Sri Lanka.

Reports indicated that the Sri Lankan government had been given intelligence on the attack some three weeks before the Easter Sunday attack occurred.

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India and the United States would also remind the Government of Sri Lanka some ten minutes before the attack happened to no success.

In the wake of the attack, the country’s minister for defense resigned even as the Police boss was prevailed upon by the country’s President, Maithripala Sirisena, to step down.

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