SriLanka: Easter bombings kill 156 in churches and hotels

A coordinated bomb blasts at a number of high-end hotels and churches in Sri Lanka have left at least 156 dead and more than 400 injured

The blasts hit a number of high-end hotels and churches in Kochchikade, Negombo and Batticaloa, targeted worshippers as they attended Easter services. .

Additional blasts ripped through three hotels, The Shangri La, Cinnamon Grand and Kingsbury Hotel, all in the capital, Colombo. There have been “many casualties including foreigners,” tweeted Sri Lankan MP, Harsha de Silva.