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At Least Four Americans Among Dead in Sri Lanka Bombings, State Department Confirms

Mon, 04/22/2019 - 4:47pm

At Least Four Americans Among Dead in Sri Lanka Bombings, State Department Confirms by Katie Mettler – Washington Post

Eight separate bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday left 290 people dead and another 500 injured. A day after the coordinated explosions, which mostly targeted Sri Lanka’s capital city of Colombo, the names and stories of those who died are beginning to trickle out.

 

The vast majority of the victims were Sri Lankan, many of them Christians who were worshiping at churches in three cities when bomb blasts at around 8:45 a.m. splintered pews and collapsed ceilings.

 

Among the dead were four Americans, according to a spokesman for the State Department, with “several” others seriously injured…

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