Sri Lanka Bomb Blast: Van explodes near Church, 87 bomb detonators found near Colombo main Bus Station

Sri Lanka Bomb Blast: Van explodes near Church, 87 bomb detonators found near Colombo main Bus Station

Colombo: After a series of explosions on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka capital city Colombo and others, another explosion went off on Monday in a van near a church in Colombo when a squad of Special Task Force (STF) and Sri Lankan Air Force were trying to diffuse the bomb, as reported in an International news agency.

Also, the Sri Lanka Police found 87 bomb detonators at Colombo main bus station, a day after the island nation was shaken by serial blasts killing 290 people and wounding 500 others.

Highly placed sources informed that the National Tawheed Jamath outfit is suspected to be behind the deadly serial bomb blasts that ripped through churches and hotels and claimed nearly 300 lives on Easter.

Reports also claim that the seven suicide bombers who had carried out the attacks were Sri Lankan nationals.

So far Twenty-four persons were arrested in connection with the eight bombs blasts that left nearly 500 people injured.

Late on Sunday, authorities defused an improvised pipe bomb on a road leading to the main terminal of the Colombo airport. Social media services continued to remain blocked in the country to curtail the spread of false information and ease tensions until the probe into the blasts is concluded.

Meanwhile, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy claimed four JD(S) workers were among the five Indians who were killed in the attacks on Easter Sunday.

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