An explosion has been reported near Sri Lanka’s Dehiwela zoo. Two people have been killed in the blast so far. The victims of the incident have been rushed to the Kalubowila Teaching Hospital in order to receive treatment, local media reported. The Zoo has been closed following the explosion, Dammika Malsinghe, Director General of the Dehiwela Zoological Garden said.
PM Modi also held telephonic conversations with his Sri Lankan counterpart Ranil Wickremesinghe and President Maithripala Sirisena, expressing condolences over the deadly blasts.
en days ahead of the deadly blasts that killed over 185 people and inured more than 400 others in Sri Lanka, the Island nation’s police chief had issued a nationwide alert that suicide bombers were planning to hit prominent churches .
The Sri Lankan Police found 87 bomb detonators at the main bus station in Colombo on Monday, a spokesman said, hours after President Maithripala Sirisena declared nationwide emergency from midnight in wake of the deadly Easter Sunday blasts that killed 290 people and wounded 500 others in the worst terror attack in the country s history.