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Sri Lanka attacks: 'Shock is greater today than yesterday'
On Sunday morning, a wave of blasts hit churches and luxury hotels across Sri Lanka. Police say at least 290 people have been killed and 500 injured in eight blasts, six of which were in Colombo. Reports say that all the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers. Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the UK, Manisha Gunasekera, gave her reaction the attacks.
(IMAGE: People who live near the church that was attacked yesterday, leave their houses as the military try to defuse a suspected van before it exploded CREDIT: REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte)
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