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A statue at St. Sebastian's Church in Katuwapitiya, one of the sites attacked on Easter Sunday 2019 — Photo: Meera2k19 · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗

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2019 Sri Lanka Easter 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 IS-related terrorist suicide bombings.

Place: Multiple locations in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
Date: 21 Apr 2019
Sources: 3 cited

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