Sri Lankan security personnel set up road blocks on streets that are largely deserted in the aftermath of the Easter Sunday bombings, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, today. People are staying indoors as security and law enforces continue to find suspected bomb detonators at the sites of the bombings. – EPA pic, April 25, 2019.
HUNDREDS of Muslim refugees in western Sri Lanka have taken refuge in mosques and a police station after facing intimidation following the deadly Easter bombings, activists said today. At least 359 people died in Sunday’s coordinated suicide blasts, including more than 100 Christians attending mass at St Sebastian’s church in Negombo on the island’s west coast.
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