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Photo Story: Catholics in Sri Lanka demand justice over Easter Sunday bomb attacks

cde.news desk 7 March 2021, 13:00 · 1 min read

epa09058400 A Sri Lankan female Catholic devotee wears a black face mask with the phrase in Sinhalese 'Justice for the Easter Sunday Attacks' during mass at the St. Anthony?s Shrine in Kochchikade , Colombo, Sri Lanka, 07 March 2021. Sri Lankan Catholics in black dress joined the 'Black Sunday' silent protest against successive government's delay to prosecute those responsible for the Easter Sunday bomb attacks of 2019. Two hundred and fifty-nine people were killed and at least 500 others were injured in a series of suicide bombings on Easter Sunday in 2019 that targeted three churches and three luxury hotels. EPA-EFE/CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE

A Sri Lankan female Catholic devotee wears a black face mask with the phrase in Sinhalese ‘Justice for the Easter Sunday Attacks’ during mass at the St. Anthony’s Shrine in Kochchikade , Colombo, Sri Lanka, 07 March 2021.

Sri Lankan Catholics in black dress joined the ‘Black Sunday’ silent protest against successive government’s delay to prosecute those responsible for the Easter Sunday bomb attacks of 2019.

Two hundred and fifty-nine people were killed and at least 500 others were injured in a series of suicide bombings on Easter Sunday in 2019 that targeted three churches and three luxury hotels.