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The confirmed death toll from the Sri Lanka terror attacks has now reached 359. Security camera video shows two of the suspected attackers inside a luxury hotel just before it was bombed on Easter Sunday. Officials say there were nine terrorists in all, including one woman. Elizabeth Palmer reports from Colombo, Sri Lanka.
More than 300 people were killed when several bombs went off in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Now, ISIS is claiming responsibility in a video. Elizabeth Palmer has the latest.
Victims of the mass murder were laid to rest Tuesday, with one funeral procession following another all day
The death toll in the Sri Lanka attacks on Easter Sunday has climbed to at least 321. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports from Negombo with new details.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the deadly terror attacks in Sri Lanka that killed more than 300 people on Easter Sunday. A man with a backpack was caught on surveillance video entering a church just before one of six nearly simultaneous suicide attacks. Sri Lanka is under a state of emergency, and the government is facing strong criticism for not acting aggressively on warnings about impending terror attacks. Elizabeth Palmer reports from Negombo, Sri Lanka.
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As death toll continues to rise, defense minister says suicide assault on churches and hotels was meant as payback for attack on Muslims in New Zealand
The Sri Lankan government has said a small Islamist extremist group known as National Thowheed Jamath is likely responsible for a terror attack that killed at least 290 people. The attack was carried out by several suicide bombers that let off explosives in churches and hotels across the country. Asha Castleberry — a national and foreign policy expert as well as a former member of the State Department mission to the United Nations — joins CBSN to discuss the connection between the extremist group and the terror attack.
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At least nine bombs exploded in three Sri Lankan cities on Easter Sunday, claiming at least 290 lives. Officials are blaming the blasts on a local militant group. CBS News law enforcement analyst Paul Viollis joined CBSN to discuss the investigation, saying the attack was right out of the al Qaeda or ISIS "playbook."
It is unknown which of the several attacks Anders Holch Povlsen's children died in
The Sri Lankan government blocked social media following the Easter Sunday bombings to stop the spread of misinformation. CNET senior producer Dan Patterson joined "CBSN AM" with why the country made this move.
Another explosion happened in Colombo, Sri Lanka, just one day after a series of bombings killed at least 290 people. The latest explosion reportedly happened in a van near a church as officials were trying to diffuse the bomb. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer heard the bomb go off and joined "CBSN AM" from Colombo.
John Miller, NYPD’s deputy police commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism and former CBS News senior correspondent, joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss the Sri Lanka bombings that killed at least 290 people on Easter Sunday.
After a series of deadly terror attacks on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka, there was a new explosion in the capital of Colombo Monday. Sri Lanka's government says the series of suicide bombings Sunday at churches and luxury hotels were carried out by a local group of Muslim radicals. The bombings killed at least 290 people and wounded hundreds. Elizabeth Palmer reports from Colombo.
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At least 290 people killed and more than 500 wounded in blasts in and around Sri Lanka's capital, and warnings may have been "ignored"
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More than 200 people are dead after a group of religious extremists set off eight bombs in churches and hotels across Sri Lanka on Sunday. The attack comes less than a month before Sri Lanka will mark 10 years since the end of the decades-long civil war. Faraz Shauketaly, a TV broadcaster at News First and an editor at The Ceylon Independent, joins CBSN's David Begnaud to discuss the political climate in Sri Lanka.
A witness to one of the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka says the government has blocked Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, leaving people confused in the chaos. Asela Waidyalankara tells CBSN what he heard when a blast went off in Dehiwala.
More than 200 people were killed in a series of coordinated bombings at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka's capital of Colombo on Easter Sunday. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports.
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Sri Lanka's defense minister said seven suspects are in custody after a series of explosions that targets churches and hotels in the capital city Colombo and elsewhere. More than 200 people have been killed. Elizabeth Palmer reports.
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