*ISLAMABAD – **Responsibility has been claimed for deadly suicide attacksin Sri Lanka.*
*The militant Islamic State has claimed responsibility forcoordinated bombings in Sri Lanka which killed 321 people and injured about500 others.*
Two of the suicide bombers blew themselves up at the luxury Shangri-LaHotel on Colombo’s seafront, said Ariyananda Welianga, a senior official atthe government’s forensic division. The others targeted three churches andtwo other hotels.
A fourth hotel and a house in a suburb of the capital Colombo were alsohit, but it was not immediately clear how those attacks were carried out.
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Most of the attacks came during Easter services and when hotel guests weresitting down for breakfast buffets.
