More than 200 dead in Sri Lanka - Images of horror after the explosions

Seven people were arrested and three police officers were killed during a raid on a house in Colombo today, as the death toll from bombings on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka exceeded 200, police and local media reported. "In total, we have information on 207 deaths from all the hospitals. "According to the information we have so far, 450 people have been admitted to hospitals," police spokesman Rouan Gunasekera told reporters in Colombo, the country's capital.

There is currently no further information on the home raid in the Sri Lankan capital. Some of the blasts, eight in number, according to a recent report, officials said were suicide bomber attacks. They took immediate action with the government announcing a traffic ban and blocking access to major social networking sites and messaging services, including Facebook and WhatsApp, to prevent the transmission of "inaccurate and misleading information" about the attacks. as he mentioned.


(Photo: EPA / MA Pushpa Kumara) 


(Photo: EPA / MA Pushpa Kumara)

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