Sri Lanka explosions: Suicide bomber queued at hotel buffet then unleashed devastation

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SriLanka explosions: Suicide bomber queued at Cinnamon Grand hotel buffet then unleashed devastation

COLOMBO - The suicide bomber waited patiently in a queue for the Easter Sunday breakfast buffet at Sri Lanka's Cinnamon Grand hotel before setting off explosives strapped to his back.

The Taprobane restaurant at the hotel was having one of its busiest days of the year for the Easter holiday weekend."He came up to the top of the queue and set off the blast," he added.The bomber also died. Parts of his body were found intact by police and taken away. The blast at St Anthony's Shrine, an historic Catholic Church, was so powerful that it blew out much of the roof, leaving roof tiles, glass and splintered wood littering the floor that was strewn with bodies.

At the Shangri-La, witnesses said they heard two loud blasts and that staff reported some people had been killed. But details of the toll were not immediately given.

 

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Why the fuck would an Islamist group attack Christians in Sri Lanka when the people who are committing genocide on Sri Lankan muslims are the extremist Buddhists!!!

The bloody explosions in Srilanka and the terrorist attack in New Zealand share the same perpetrators - those who are intent on fuelling 'religionophobia' with the specific purpose of promulgating their falsifications that religions lead to hatred and enmities.

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