Nine suicide bombers carried out a series of devastating

Sri Lanka has a population of 21 million which is a patchwork of ethnicities and religions, dominated by the Sinhalese Buddhist majority.. I saw the blood. "We felt the attack was not something that was planned at a local level..Two Dubai-based Indians, Razeena Kukkady, 58, and Juno, 42, were killed in blasts. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said Sri Lanka needs new laws to deal with threats posed by local terror outfits linked to ISIS. President Maithripala Sirisena said Friday that over 130 suspects linked to the Islamic State terror group have been operating in the country. Muslims account for 10 per cent of the population and are the second-largest minority after Hindus. It was too much and I could not believe it was real," she said, adding that when they saw the news of churches and five-star hotels been targeted, did it sink in that this was wood band saw huge. It was something at an international scale," she said. Around seven per cent of Sri Lankans are Christians.Recounting the day, Chari said that he and his wife were in the middle of the Easter service when the priest requested people to leave the church premises calmly, saying he has received reports about bombings in other churches, the Gulf News reported.Abhinav Chari, manager at a health insurance firm in Dubai, and his wife Navroop were visiting the island nation for a business trip and staying in the Cinnamon Grand Hotel, one of the targets in the series of bomb blasts that ripped through luxury hotels and churches on Easter Sunday.. We started noticing a commotion on the roads and decided it was better to go back to the hotel," he said. I saw the ambulance come in . Nine suicide bombers carried out a series of devastating blasts that tore through three churches and three luxury hotels on the Easter Sunday, killing 253 people, including 11 Indians. The Islamic State claimed the attacks, but the government has blamed local Islamist extremist group National Thowheeth Jamaath (NTJ) for the attacks. I saw the bodies being taken out. The gravity of the situation had not struck yet but soon it became clear that it was much more.Dubai: A Dubai-based Indian couple, who had a narrow escape in the Sri Lanka blasts, said the whole scene looked like a movie and unreal, recounting that they saw blood spilled everywhere as bodies were taken out from the hotel they were staying in, according to a media report.He said that on reaching hotel, they saw everyone out on the lawn and thought that it was just some sort of security protocol. I could not believe what was happening in front of us. "After we left the church we got into a taxi to go get some breakfast because that is what we would normally do after Easter mass. Charis wife Navroop said, "it was too soon to know anything on the news or social media, we still hadnt registered the scale of the incident." "It was all like a movie.


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