The massive explosion hit the churches and luxury hotels in Srilanka. The death of people has soared around 300. It is not yet revealed who carried out the blast but according to Police 24 people had been arrested. About 500 people are injured and at least 35 foreigners are among the dead. The Easter Sunday bombings were the deadliest violence Sri Lanka has witnessed since the end of the country's civil war in 2009.

 

Reacting to this Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said security services had been aware of information of possible attacks but that the information had not been acted upon.

 

 A curfew is to be imposed from 20:00 (14:30 GMT) until 04:00 on Tuesday, the government said.

 

The first explosion report came at about 08:45 local time with six blasts reported within a small space of time. Three churches in Negombo, Batticaloa and Colombo's Kochchikade district were targeted during Easter services. Blasts also rocked the Shangri-La, Kingsbury and Cinnamon Grand hotels in the country's capital.

All the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers.

 

Police then carried out raids on two addresses and there were explosions at both. One was in Dehiwala, southern Colombo, and the other was near the Colombo district of Dematagoda in which three officers were killed. 

An improvised explosive device - a 6ft-long plastic pipe packed with explosives - had been found and disposed of near the airport in the capital, Colombo.