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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

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:

16:49 (IST) Apr 22

They discovered three bombs that they tried to defuse. Instead, the bombs detonated, sending pedestrians fleeing in panic

16:49 (IST) Apr 22

Police went to inspect the van after people reported it had been parked near St Anthony's Shrine since Sunday

16:20 (IST) Apr 22

The van exploded when the bomb defusing unit of the STF (Special Task Force) and air force tried to diffuse the bomb.

16:19 (IST) Apr 22

Blast near church while Sri Lanka bomb squad was trying to defuse device: Witness (Reuters)

15:49 (IST) Apr 22

Sri Lanka police find 87 bomb detonators at Colombo's main bus stand.

15:48 (IST) Apr 22

Sri Lanka President appoints committee to probe Easter Sunday attacks

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15:00 (IST) Apr 22

Coast Guard on high alert along the maritime boundary with Sri Lanka. Ships and maritime surveillance aircraft Dornier deployed on the maritime border to prevent any attempts by suicide bombing perpetrators to escape from Sri Lanka: Indian Coast Guard sources

14:47 (IST) Apr 22

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena to declare nationwide emergency from midnight on Monday following Easter Day blasts

14:27 (IST) Apr 22

The Easter Sunday bomb attacks in Sri Lanka were carried out with the help of an international network: Cabinet spokesman Rajitha Senaratne

14:25 (IST) Apr 22

Sri Lankan minister Rajitha Senaratne says National Tawheed Jamaat outfit is suspected to be behind devastating Easter blasts.

14:18 (IST) Apr 22

All suicide bombers are believed to be Sri Lankan nationals, says Senaratne

13:59 (IST) Apr 22

Chief minister H D Kumarswamy says 7 of the party workers and leaders were missing since the blasts and now 4 are confirmed dead. The three others who are missing are H ShivuKumar, A Maregowda and H Puttaraju. The Chief Secretary’s office is in constant touch with the Resident Commissioner at Karnataka Bhavan, New Delhi, and the families of the victims and the missing persons for further information on them.

13:18 (IST) Apr 22

Sri Lankan authorities order curfew in Colombo from 8pm to 4am: Government Information Department

13:08 (IST) Apr 22

7 suicide attackers behind 6 Sri Lanka blasts: Investigator

The coordinated Easter Sunday bombings that ripped through Sri Lankan churches and luxury hotels were carried out by seven suicide bombers, a government investigator said on Monday. An analysis of the attackers' body parts made clear that they were suicide bombers, said a forensic crime investigator. He said most attacks were by one bomber, with two at Colombo's Shangri-La Hotel.

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13:04 (IST) Apr 22

'Where is God?': Sri Lankans stunned after deadly blasts

As Shantha Prasad carried children wounded in Sri Lanka's deadly attacks into a Colombo hospital, memories of the country's deadly civil war flooded back.

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10:57 (IST) Apr 22

I'm shocked to hear that a 7-member team of JDS workers from Karnataka, who were touring Colombo (Sri Lanka), has gone missing after bomb blasts. Two of them are feared killed. I'm in constant touch with Indian high commission on reports of those missing: Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy

10:44 (IST) Apr 22

Two JDS leaders from Nelamangala near Bengaluru, identified as Hanumantarayappa KG and Rangappa M, confirmed dead in Sri Lanka.

10:43 (IST) Apr 22

7 JDS leaders, who were in Sri Lanka, have not been in touch with their families in India

09:39 (IST) Apr 22

24 people arrested in connection with multiple blasts in Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan authorities have arrested 24 people from the minority Muslim community in connection with the multiple blasts that rocked the island nation on Sunday, killing over 290 people.

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09:36 (IST) Apr 22

Family's near miss at bombed Sri Lanka church

When Dilip Fernando arrived at St Sebastian's church in Sri Lanka's Negombo on Easter Sunday, it was so crowded he went elsewhere for mass. The decision probably saved his life.

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