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Sri Lanka blasts live updates: Government declares emergency from midnight

THE TIMES OF INDIA | Apr 22, 2019, 23:18:03 IST

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Sri Lanka blasts live updates: Government declares emergency from midnight

A string of blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches as worshippers attended Easter services in Sri Lanka on Sunday. Stay here for all live updates:

14:21 (IST) Apr 21

New blast in Sri Lankan capital, two dead: AFP quoting police spokesman

14:13 (IST) Apr 21

Sri Lanka attacks 'truly appalling': British PM

14:03 (IST) Apr 21

A statement issued in Jerusalem said the blasts were particularly sad as they "came while Christians celebrate Easter."

14:02 (IST) Apr 21

The Catholic Church in the Holy Land has voiced support for Sri Lanka's Christians and condemned Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels there that killed at least 156 people: AFP

13:45 (IST) Apr 21

Blasts at Sri Lanka hotels and churches kill 156: AFP

12:42 (IST) Apr 21

Sri Lankan police officers clear the road as an ambulance drives through carrying injured of Church blasts in Colombo.

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12:23 (IST) Apr 21

Easter Day bombs kill 138 in attacks on Sri Lankan churches, hotels: Reuters

12:19 (IST) Apr 21

At least nine foreigners dead in Sri Lanka blasts: AFP quoting police official

12:18 (IST) Apr 21

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe called a national security council meeting at his home later in the day.

12:18 (IST) Apr 21

Sri Lanka police chief had warned of suicide attack threat before blasts

Sri Lanka's police chief made a nationwide alert 10 days before Sunday's bomb attacks in the country that suicide bombers planned to hit "prominent churches", according to the warning seen by AFP. Police chief Pujuth Jayasundara sent an intelligence warning to top officers on April 11 setting out the threat. "A foreign intelligence agency has reported that the NTJ (National Thowheeth Jama'ath) is planning to carry out suicide attacks targeting prominent churches as well as the Indian high commission in Colombo," said the alert. Read more

12:13 (IST) Apr 21

Toll in Sri Lanka blasts rises to 129: AFP quoting hospital sources

12:10 (IST) Apr 21

Death toll rises to 100 and more than 400 injured in Sri Lanka blasts , reports Reuters

12:01 (IST) Apr 21

Sri Lanka police chief warned of possible suicide attacks before Sunday blasts: AFP quoting document

11:59 (IST) Apr 21

Three explosions were reported from the five-star hotels, the Shangri-La, the Cinnamon Grand and the Kingsbury: PTI

11:59 (IST) Apr 21

Three churches - St Anthony's Church in Colombo, St Sebastian's Church in the western coastal town of Negombo and another church in the eastern town of Batticaloa - were targeted.

11:59 (IST) Apr 21

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11:59 (IST) Apr 21

India on Sunday said that it was closely monitoring the situation in Sri Lanka, where six near simultaneous blasts hit three churches and three hotels on Easter Sunday leaving scores dead.

11:35 (IST) Apr 21

The Colombo National Hospital spokesperson, Dr Samindi Samarakoon, said more than 300 people have been admitted with injuries: PTI

11:29 (IST) Apr 21

Death toll rises to 52 in Sri Lanka blasts: AFP

11:23 (IST) Apr 21

We are monitoring situation in Sri Lanka: Sushma Swaraj

As Colombo was rocked by a multiple explosions, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said Sunday that India was keeping a close watch on the situation. "Colombo - I am in constant touch with Indian High Commissioner in Colombo. We are keeping a close watch on the situation. @IndiainSL," Swaraj tweeted. Read more