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Breaking: Bomb blasts continue to haunt Sri Lanka
Colombo: According to The Leaders Online Foreign Correspondent Ashraff A Samad, an improvised explosive device was detected inside a van near the St. Anthony’s Church, Jampettah Road, Kochchikade, and was disposed of in controlled explosion at the site by the
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Sri Lanka bomb blasts: Billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen lost three children
PUCHONG: Online fashion business tycoon Anders Holch Povlsen who is also among UK and Scotland’s biggest landowners has confirmed that he lost three out of four children in the bomb blasts that rocked Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Local UK
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Saifuddin: Malaysia ready to assist Sri Lankan government
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is ready to provide assistance to the Sri Lankan government for recovery efforts in affected areas after a co-ordinated wave of bombings struck several locations on the island country, killing more than 130 people, today. Foreign Minister
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Sri Lanka attackers must be ‘punished mercilessly’
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s most senior Catholic figure called today on the government to find the attackers behind deadly bomb blasts that killed more than 160 people and “punish them mercilessly”. “I would also like to ask the government to hold
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National Thowheed Jamaat not responsible for Sri Lanka blasts
K Pragalath & Hema Subramaniam PUCHONG: In a phone conversation with The Leaders Online, Governor of The Eastern Province, Government of Sri Lanka Mahamood Lebbe Alim Mohamed Hizbullah has dismissed allegations that National Thowheed Jamaat was responsible for the multiple
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Sri Lanka: Multiple blasts hit churches, hotels on Easter Sunday, 138 dead
COLOMBO: Three churches – St Anthony’s Church in Colombo, St Sebastian’s Church were hit by blasts. Three explosions were reported from the five-star hotels, the Shangrila, the Cinnamon Grand, and the Kingsbury. Six near simultaneous blasts hit three churches and
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