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Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the Archbishop of Colombo.
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Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, the Archbishop of Colombo, has requested people to observe a 2-minute silence on April 21 in memory of the victims of Easter Sunday attacks.
Sri Lanka’s Catholic church will observe a two-minute silence on Wednesday morning to mark the second anniversary of the deadly Easter Sunday attacks in 2019 that killed 258 people, including 11 Indians.
Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, the Archbishop of Colombo, has requested people to observe a two-minute silence at 8.45 a.m. on Wednesday in memory of the victims of the Easter Sunday attacks.
Nine suicide bombers belonging to local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) linked to ISIS carried out a series of devastating blasts that tore through three churches and as many luxury hotels on April 21, 2019, killing 258 people, including 11 Indians.
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The security personnel include 9,350 police officials and 2,542 troops from the tri forces (Army, Navy and Air Force), he said.
The St Sebastian s Church at Negombo s Katuwapitiya was the worst-hit in the Easter Sunday blasts that rocked the island nation in 2019 with 114 people dying in the church attack.
The Buddhist-majority nation was about to mark a decade since ending a 37-year-long Tamil separatist war in May 2009 when the suicide bombings in 2019 rocked the country.
Colombo: Security at churches across Sri Lanka have been beefed up ahead of Easter on Sunday, police said on Saturday, in the wake of the April 2019 coordinated attacks on tourists and minority Christian community in the country in which 270 people were killed.