Responsibility claimed for deadly suicide attacks in Sri Lanka
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*ISLAMABAD - **Responsibility has been claimed for deadly suicide attacks in Sri Lanka.*
*The militant Islamic State has claimed responsibility for coordinated bombings in Sri Lanka which killed 321 people and injured about 500 others.*
Two of the suicide bombers blew themselves up at the luxury Shangri-La Hotel on Colombo’s seafront, said Ariyananda Welianga, a senior official at the government’s forensic division. The others targeted three churches and two other hotels.
A fourth hotel and a house in a suburb of the capital Colombo were also hit, but it was not immediately clear how those attacks were carried out.
Most of the attacks came during Easter services and when hotel guests were sitting down for breakfast buffets.
