Blast near church while Sri Lanka bomb squad was trying to defuse device: Witness
An explosion went off on Monday in a van near a church in Sri Lanka where scores were killed the previous day, when bomb squad officials were trying to defuse it, a Reuters witness said.
By : migrator
Update: 2019-04-22 11:26 GMT
New Delhi
"The van exploded when the bomb defusing unit of the STF (Special Task Force) and air force tried to diffuse the bomb," the witness said.
Security force spokesmen were not immediately available for comment.
On Sunday morning, 8 serial blasts ripped through the island nation, killing at least 290 people and injuring at least 500 people across several towns and capital city Colombo.
At least six Indians are among the dead.
Seven JDS workers from Karnataka have gone missing since blasts ripped apart the Shangri La Hotel in Colombo where the group was staying. Two of them are feared dead in the blasts.
Police have arrested 24 suspects in connection with the blasts while another improvised pipe bomb was defused near the Colombo airport.
On Monday, police found as many as 87 bomb detonators at a bus station in Colombo.
The bomb detonators were found at the Central Colombo bus station in Pettah area.
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