A series of coordinated bombings — and the fear of more to come — has convulsed Sri Lanka since Sunday morning. This is how the attacks unfolded.
, a guest named Sarita Marlou was sleeping when the building shook. “Felt the blast all the way up to the 17th floor where we were sleeping,” she wrote on Facebook of the explosion on the third-floor restaurant. “Few minutes later, we were asked to evacuate the hotel. While running down the stairs, saw a lot of blood on the floor but we were still clueless as to what really happened.”that he was having breakfast with his travel partner when he saw two men wearing backpacks.
: “We share in the shock, grief and mourning of our entire nation in the aftermath of the recent attack. … Medical evaluation and treatment of the injured guests and employees were handled immediately.”, an evangelical church built in the 1970s, along the eastern coast. Simon Whitmarsh described what he saw in an
with the BBC. There was “smoke billowing into the sky about a half a mile away,” he said. “Then we saw the ambulances, people crying, and we were told to leave the area,” he added.is a budget hotel south of Colombo in Dehiwala near the National Zoo. An explosion occurred at the hotel hours after the others. One person, Asela Waidyalankara, posted a video on Twitter at 1:50 p.m. of smoke rising into the sky,, “Blast heard from Dehiwala and smoke seems to be coming up on nearby building.
, about 3 a.m. Eastern time, or 12:30 p.m. local time, according to Reuters. Few details were released. Early Monday morning Eastern time, what was believed to be a controlled explosion occurred as police tried to defuse a bomb found inside a van near. Few details were released, and it was not clear whether anyone was injured.
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