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 .
A purported video footage of a bomb blast in Sri Lanka’s St. Anthony s church has emerged on social media. A dashcam footage of the blast shows smoke coming out of the St. Anthony s church in Kochikade after the blast. News Nation could not independently verify the authenticity of the footage.