The toll in a series of suicide bomb blasts on Easter Sunday targeting hotels and churches in Sri Lanka has risen to 359, police said Wednesday.
![Children sit next to flowers left by mourners near St. Anthony's Shrine in Colombo on April 23, 2019, two days after a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. [Photo: AFP/Jewel SAMAD]](http://img1.zhytuku.meldingcloud.com/images/zhycms_chinaplus/20190424/bc81ac12-3fa0-41c6-b960-a2d38890aca6.jpg?x-oss-process=image/resize,w_650)
Children sit next to flowers left by mourners near St. Anthony's Shrine in Colombo on April 23, 2019, two days after a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. [Photo: AFP/Jewel SAMAD]
The additional deaths were the result of the wounded dying of their injuries. At least 500 people were injured in the attacks. |
