2019 Sri Lanka bombings

When

21 Apr 2019

Kind

Terrorist attack

Killed

269

Coordinates

6.93° N, 79.87° E

Wounded

500

Series of suicide bombings

On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital, Colombo, were targeted in a series of coordinated Islamic State (IS)-related terrorist suicide bombings. Later that day, two smaller explosions occurred at a housing complex in Dematagoda and a guest house in Dehiwala.

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• Wikidata: terrorist attacks outside GTD’s yearsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A series of Islamist bomb attacks occur at eight locations in Sri Lanka, including three churches, four hotels and one housing complex in Colombo”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Der Terroranschlag in Sri Lanka am Ostersonntag 2019 fordert über 250 Tote und fast 500 Verletzte”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “На католическую Пасху в Шри-Ланке исламские террористы совершили террористическую атаку: в разных частях страны, включая столицу Шри-Ланки город Коломбо”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En Sri Lanka se suceden varios atentados con explosiones suicidas en iglesias cristianas y hoteles durante las fiestas de Pascua”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “مقتل حوالي 290 شخصًا وجرح ما يزيد عن 500 آخرين في سلسلة تفجيراتٍ طالت كنائس وفنادق في 3 مُدن سريلانكيَّة بِالتزامن مع احتفالات عيد الفُصح”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “斯里兰卡发生連環爆炸案，分布于首都科伦坡、內貢博、巴提卡洛阿等城市，涉及3个教堂及4家酒店。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page