- Imam Mohamad Tawhidi RetweetedCompare the level of outrage with what happened in Sri Lanka with Christchurch, NZ. Triple the amount of casualties and triple the amount of injured people. It offends me and other likeminded Muslims that we get special treatment and other equal humans don’t. #SriLanka
(CNN) An ongoing series of bomb blasts struck luxury hotels
and churches across Sri Lanka on Sunday. At least 140 people were killed and
560 have been injured in the coordinated terror attacks, which have put the
entire country on lock-down.
The first wave of attacks struck at the heart of the
country's minority Christian community during busy Easter services at churches
in the cities of Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa on Sunday morning.
Additional blasts ripped through three high-end hotels, the
Shangri La, Cinnamon Grand and Kingsbury Hotel, all in capital city Colombo. In
a statement, the Shangri-La hotel in Colombo said that the hotel's Table One
cafe was hit just after 9 a.m local time. The hotel is popular with foreign
tourists and the country's business community.
A seventh and eighth blast, at a hotel in front of the
Dehiwala Zoo in Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia and at a private house in Mahawila
Gardens, in Dematagoda, occurred Sunday afternoon.
Here's the full list of blast sites reported so far:
St Anthony's Shrine, Kochchikade
St Sebastian's Church, Negombo
Zion Church, Batticaloa
Cinnamon Grand, Colombo
Shangri-La Hotel, Colombo
The Kingsbury Hotel, Colombo
Near Dehiwala Zoo in Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia
A house in Mahawila Gardens, Dematagoda
At least 20 foreigners are among the dead in Colombo,
according to hospital Director General Anil Jasinghe. Hospitals have opened
their doors to scores of victims.