Three minutes of silence were held in a national memorial service for the victims of the weekend’s terrorist attack in Sri Lanka on Tuesday, which is declared as a day of mourning.
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It was at 08.30 in the morning, the time when the first bomb blew up, according to the BBC.
and many stood silently with bowed head in honor of those killed.
In the day on Tuesday, many of the victims are buried.
In the Saint Sebastian’s church in Negombo, north of the capital Colombo, there were about 100 people who died.
and the church was crammed when the explosion came, from nowhere.
There has not been any tensions or conflicts between the various communities in the country in recent time.
“I have not seen one of these here massbegravning since 1984, in the beginning of the civil war,” says the priest, pater Ivan to CNN.
In the area is a majority of the people, christians, and everyone knows someone who died, according to the priest.
the mourners to massbegravningen in the church, during an extensive säkerhetspådrag.
Kyrkbesökarna attack by security forces on the way into the service.
