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Eight bombs explode at churches, hotels, and other locations in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing at least 269.
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2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings
Series of suicide bombings
On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital, Colombo, were targeted in a series of coordinated ISIS-related terrorist suicide bombings. Later that day, two smaller explosions occurred at a housing complex in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Sri Lanka
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Christian commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus
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