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2019 Sri Lanka bombings

a series of explosions in Sri Lanka across multiple cities on Easter Sunday, 21 April 2019
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Summary

2019 Sri Lanka bombings is a bomb attack[1].

Key Facts

  • Country: Sri Lanka[2]
  • Instance of: mass murder[3]
  • Location: Negombo[4], Batticaloa[5], Colombo[6]
  • Part of: terrorism in Sri Lanka[7], Islamic terrorism[8], persecution of Christians[9]
  • Armament: bomb[10]
  • Target: St. Anthony's Shrine, Kochchikade[11], St. Sebastian’s Church[12], Zion Church, Batticaloa[13], The Tropical Inn Hotel[14], Shangri-La Hotel[15], Cinnamon Grand Colombo[16], The Kingsbury[17]
  • Point in time: April 21, 2019[18]
  • Number of deaths: 269[19]
  • Number of injured: 500[20]
  • Number of perpetrators: 9[21]
  • Medical evacuation to: National Hospital of Sri Lanka[22], Batticaloa Teaching Hospital[23]
  • Perpetrator: National Thowheeth Jama'ath[24]

Related Entities

Batticaloa Colombo Sri Lanka

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . so.com. Retrieved . so.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  18. [19] ↑ . bbc.com. bbc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . bbc.co.uk. bbc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . newsfirst.lk. newsfirst.lk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 18w ago · Chalmd · 2026-06-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Number of injured → {'amount': '+500'}
    Coordinates → —
    Part of → terrorism in Sri Lanka, Islamic terrorism, persecution of Christians
    Number of perpetrators → {'amount': '+9'}
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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