A suicide bomber attended a breakfast buffet at a SriLanka hotel before detonating his device amid families gathered for Easter.
, documents show cops were told of possible attacks involving the religious hubs, before worshippers were killed during Easter mass today.
There has been no immediate claims of responsibility for the attacks in the country, which was at war for decades with Tamil separatists until 2009 — during which bomb blasts in the capital were common. And there have been recent reports of clashes between Sinhalese Buddhist and Muslim communities, with some hard line Buddhist groups accusing Muslims of forcing people to convert to Islam.
The death toll in today’s shocking attack has risen to 207, according to Sri Lanka’s deputy transport minister — with just one of the church attacks said to have seen 300 victims.
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