Bombings in Sri Lanka

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48001720

Awful news to see violence starting up again in Sri Lanka.

I have no idea of the history here, who is carrying this out and what are the issues?

Those of us who have religious freedom don't realise how lucky we are.

for anyone affected by this.

It's awful news. 7 or 8 separate blasts it would seem now, affecting churches and hotels.

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Very horrible news, especially scary as I only flew out of there in the early hours of Saturday morning.
It's a lovely country but I think tourism as been hit majorly by recent problems and this seems like the nail in coffin for it.

And my sympathies to anyone effected by this

There is, as ever, speculation about a well known terrorist group but it's not been said publicly who did it/claimed responsibility. Just over a year ago there was conflict between a Muslim and a Buddhist group but generally the country had been more peaceful since the Tamil Tigers were defeated about 10 years ago.

This is unbelievably sad. My heart just breaks for those who were going to church on Easter morning for this tragedy...so many have lost their lives and so many injuries ...words cannot comprehend how the Sri Lanka is hurting right now.

I hope this gets the same coverage and responses across the world as the New Zealand massacare a few weeks ago and the Notre Dame fire. Call me a cynic, but I find that too often news spreads and people seem more riled about tragedy when it happens to a developed (or dare I say it, White) country than developing countries. I hope to be proved wrong in that.

It's all over the BBC and has been all day so far. It is very sad, tragic when there is so much loss of life whether in a religious building or elsewhere.

I have been following this today. It's horrific. Those poor people who have lost their lives, or had their lives and their families torn apart.

Targeting the hotels and churches strikes me as particularly awful, though it's no more awful than targeting anywhere of course. Just all those people at work trying to earn a living to support their family and now they are dead or awfully injured.

It's horrific - I've been posting on the thread in chat too. It took a few hours to make the headlines, but it's now firmly there. Cynically, I suspect that as British fatalities have been confirmed now, we'll continue to get some coverage. Things that happen outside the western world - except Gaza rarely get the coverage that would ordinarily be warranted by this scale of attack though.

“Easter worshippers”? FFS

Euphemisms for Christians now is it?

Just - why? What did they hope to achieve? Why therefore not 'own' this atrocity?

I just don't get it.

What a hideous, pointless thing to do.