Easter Sunday remembrance

Catholic Churches countryside yesterday (21) marked the fifth anniversary of the National Thowheed Jamaat terror attacks on Easter Sunday in 2019.A two-minute silence at 08.45 a.m. in remembrance of those who lost their lives in the bombings.

Islamic extremist organisation National Thowheed Jamaat (NTJ) carried out a series of coordinated bomb blasts at St. Anthony’s Church in Kochchikade, St. Sebastian’s Church in Katuwapitiya, Zion Church in Batticaloa, Cinnamon Grand, Kingsbury and Shangri-La hotels in Colombo, and one of the suicide bombers blew himself up at a guest house in Dehiwala, leaving more than 270 people including foreigners dead and at least 500 people injured.