'We kept calling her' - Sri Lankans scour hospitals, morgue for loved ones


  • World
  • Monday, 22 Apr 2019

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankans scoured hospitals and morgues for missing loved ones on Monday, a day after suicide bomb attacks on churches holding Easter services and luxury hotels killed 290 people and wounded about 500.

Outside the national hospital in Colombo, a woman named Rameshwary said she was searching for a 17-year-old friend who attended morning mass at St. Anthony's Shrine, one of three Catholic churches hit in the coordinated attack.

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