Sri Lankans accounted for the bulk of the dead and wounded although government officials said 32 foreigners were killed, including British, US, Turkish, Indian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch and Portuguese nationals.
COLOMBO - Seven suicide bombers took part in the devastating attacks on churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka that killed 290 people and wounded more than 500, a senior investigator said on Monday.
“Guests who had come for breakfast were lying on the floor, blood all over,” an employee at Kingsbury Hotel, one of those targeted, told Reuters.Four of the bombs went off at roughly the same time, at 8.45am, with two others coming within 20 minutes. The explosions at the fourth hotel and the house were in the afternoon.
The government announced a curfew in Colombo from 8pm until 4am. A Sunday night curfew was lifted in the morning. Traffic was uncharacteristically thin in normally bustling Colombo after the island-wide curfew was lifted. The government also blocked access to social media and messaging sites, including Facebook and WhatsApp, making information hard to gather.
He said he and a travel partner were also having breakfast at the Shangri-La when two blasts went off. He said he had seen two men wearing backpacks seconds before the blasts.
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