2 JD-S workers dead, 5 missing in Lanka blasts

April 22, 2019 11:29

Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy confirms that JD-S workers have gone missing in the serial bomb blasts in Sri Lanka. "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 the bomb blasts. Two of them are feared killed. I'm in constant touch with Indian High Commission on reports of those missing."

Kumaraswamy added, "EAM Sushma Swaraj has confirmed the death of 2 Kannadigas, KG Hanumantharayappa and M Rangappa, in the bomb blasts in Colombo. I'm deeply shocked at the loss of our JD(S) party workers, whom I know personally. We stand with their families in this hour of grief."

So far, six Indians have been killed in a string of eight powerful blasts, including suicide attacks, which struck three churches and luxury hotels frequented by foreigners in Sri Lanka on Easter on Sunday, officials said on Monday.

The blasts targeted 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 around 8.45 a.m. (local time) as the Easter Sunday mass were in progress.

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

Foreigners and locals who were injured in hotel blasts were admitted to the Colombo General Hospital.

Image: Sri Lankan military officials stand guard in front of the St Anthony's Shrine, Kochchikade church after an explosion in Colombo. Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters

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