The toll rose to 321 dead with about 500 people wounded
A woman reacts during a mass burial of victims, two days after suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels across the island on Easter Sunday, in Colombo on April 23, 2019.Tuesday was declared a national day of mourning and the funerals of some of the victims were held, as pressure mounted on the government over why effective action had not been taken in response to a warning this month about a possible attack on churches by the little-known National Thawheed Jama’ut group.
Most of the dead and wounded were Sri Lankans, although government officials said 38 foreigners were killed. That included British, U.S., Australian, Turkish, Indian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch and Portuguese nationals.Footage on CNN showed what it said was one of the bombers wearing a heavy backpack. The man patted a child on the head before entering the Gothic-style St. Sebastian church in Katuwapitiya, north of Colombo. Dozens were killed there.
The Washington Post quoted an unidentified law enforcement official as saying Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were being sent to Sri Lanka to help with the investigation.The FBI had offered expertise to test evidence and analysts were scouring databases for information, the Post said. Counter-terrorism officials from Britain were also due on Tuesday, a Western diplomat in Colombo said.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters Monday that the U.S. stands with the"millions of Sri Lankans who support the freedom of their fellow citizens to worship as they please," following Sunday's devastating bomb attacks on hotels and churches in which at least 290 people were killed and nearly 500 wounded.It was not immediately clear what action, if any, was taken in response.
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