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斯里兰卡更正爆炸死亡人数:爆炸造成约253人遇难
2019-04-26 02:24
海外网4月26日电据BBC消息，当地时间25日，斯里兰卡政府对爆炸案件造成的死亡人数进行了修正，爆炸案致死总人数减少100多，从之前统计的359人降至“约253人”。官方将此前数据归咎于统计错误。官方表示，爆炸案遇难者多为斯里兰卡公民，数十名外国公民亦不幸罹难。
当地时间21日至22日，斯里兰卡首都科伦坡等多地先后发生9次连环炸弹袭击，涉及至少3座教堂及3家酒店。22日，斯里兰卡卫生部长表示，这起袭击由本地激进穆斯林组织NTJ（National Thowheed Jamath）策划。当地时间23日，极端组织“伊斯兰国”宣称对斯里兰卡连环爆炸案负责，但并未提供直接证据。
目前，斯里兰卡官方已确认至少有9名自杀式袭击者参与复活节连环爆炸袭击，其中8人身份已被识别。斯里兰卡警方已发布7名与爆炸事件相关的嫌犯照片，并继续追凶。（编译/海外网 侯兴川）返回搜狐，查看更多
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Sri Lanka corrects the number of deaths in the explosion: about 253 people were killed in the explosion
2019-04-26 02:24
After the bombing, the military and police officers were on the scene. (Photo: Reuters)
According to the BBC news, on the 25th local time, the Sri Lankan government revised the number of deaths caused by the bombings. The total number of deaths caused by the bombings decreased by more than 100, from the previous statistics of 359 to "about 253 people." ". The official blamed the previous data on statistical errors. Officials said that the victims of the bombings were mostly Sri Lankan citizens, and dozens of foreign citizens were also unfortunately killed.
From the 21st to the 22nd local time, there were 9 serial bomb attacks in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo and other places, involving at least 3 churches and 3 hotels. On the 22nd, the Sri Lankan Health Minister stated that the attack was planned by the local radical Muslim organization NTJ (National Thowheed Jamath). On the 23rd local time, the extremist organization “Islamic State” claimed responsibility for the Sri Lanka serial bombing, but did not provide direct evidence.
Currently, Sri Lankan officials have confirmed that at least nine suicide attackers have participated in the Easter serial bombings, and eight of them have been identified. The Sri Lankan police have released photos of seven suspects related to the bombings and continue to pursue them. (Compile / Overseas Network Hou Xingchuan) Return to Sohu, see more
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48059328
Sri Lanka attacks: Death toll revised down by 'about 100'
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Sri Lanka has revised down the death toll from Sunday's blasts by more than 100, to "about 253", the health ministry says.
It has blamed a calculation error.
Suicide bombers struck hotels and churches in the Colombo area and the eastern city of Batticaloa. Hundreds were injured, officials said.
Most of those killed were Sri Lankans, but dozens of foreigners were also casualties. Nine people are suspected of carrying out the attacks.
Police have continued carrying out raids and have issued photographs of seven people wanted in connection with the attacks.
The authorities blamed a local Islamist extremist group, National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ), soon after the blasts but say the bombers must have had outside help.
The Islamic State group said it was behind the attacks and published a video showing eight men but provided no evidence of direct involvement.
In other developments:
Media captionRamesh was killed in the blast in Batticaloa Why was the wrong toll given?
Sri Lankan Deputy Defence Minister Ruwan Wijewardene said morgues had provided inaccurate figures.
Another official, the head of health services, told Reuters news agency there had been so many body parts it was "difficult to give a precise figure".
According to the health ministry, all autopsies had been completed late on Thursday and it transpired that some victims had been counted more than once.
BBC World Service South Asia editor Jill McGivering says the revised figure comes as the government is struggling to restore its credibility - amid criticism of its apparent failure to respond to intelligence warnings before the attacks.
It's also battling to counter fake news and false rumours about the crisis, she says. This sudden dramatic revision is unlikely to help.
What is the situation with the Muslim minority?
Muslims in Sri Lanka are reporting feeling fearful and say they are facing persecution.
Many of those in Negombo belong to a minority sect, the Ahmadi. Some have been sheltering in a mosque under police protection.
Ahmadi Muslims identify as Muslim and follow the Koran, but are viewed by many orthodox Muslims as heretical.
Many of those living in Sri Lanka have fled from persecution elsewhere, including Pakistan.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has admitted that some Ahmadis have been subject to attacks. Of Sri Lanka's 21-million population, just under 10% are Muslims.
A community in fear
Muralitharan Kasiviswanathan, BBC Tamil, Negombo
As of Wednesday, more than 600 Ahmadis had taken refuge at Faizul Mosque in Negombo, one of the five Ahmadi mosques in Sri Lanka.
Most of the Ahmadis were renting their homes from Catholic Christians. Although the bomb blasts happened on 21 April, it was on the 24th that things got scary for the Ahmadis.
"My home is some streets away from the church. After the attack, the owner of my house was very worried and asked me to be safe somewhere. I am paying 13,000 rupees [£58; $74] for that house. Most of us paid a year's rent an advance. Where will we go now?" asks 27-year-old Habis Rabba Soaib.
About 800 Ahmadis from Pakistan live here with the help of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. Fearing religious prosecution, they fled Pakistan and came to Negombo. From here they seek asylum in European countries or the US.
Although the Faizul mosque is small, officials of the mosque are taking care of them and sending most of them to another mosque, Pesalay, which is in a safer location. This mosque is now guarded by army and the police.
More than 5,000 native Ahmadis live in Negombo. Many of them have lived here for years and now own houses and businesses.
"Since we have been here for a long time, nobody is threatening us," says one of the Muslim youths who is busy helping the Pakistanis.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-26/sri-lanka-bombings:-more-terror-attacks-very-likely/11047728
Sri Lanka bombings: More terror attacks 'very likely' as death toll revised
By South Asia correspondent Siobhan Heanue
Updated about an hour ago
Photo: Colombo's streets are not as busy as usual after suicide bombings rocked the city. (ABC News: Brant Cumming)
Related Story: Pregnant wife of Sri Lanka bomber detonates suicide vest, killing children
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More terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka are "very likely", nearly a week after the Easter Sunday bombings that killed hundreds of people.
Key points:
The UK foreign office has said that terrorists are very likely to try to carry out further attacks and advised travellers against all but essential travel.
The US has warned that further attacks are likely over the weekend, and urged people to avoid crowded places and places of worship.
The death toll from the suicide bomb blasts stands at around 100 fewer deaths than previously reported, down from 359 to around 250, a Sri Lankan health official told Reuters.
"It could be 250 or 260. I can't exactly say," said Anil Jasinghe, the director general of Sri Lanka's health services.
"Unfortunately the health ministry provided the earlier number to us," he said.
Photo: Many popular tourist sites, including temples, are empty of visitors after the bombings rocked Sri Lanka. (ABC News)
Bomb scares impacting tourism
Regular bomb scares in Colombo mean the city remains emptied of tourists, with many opting to leave the country or stay in their hotel rooms.
The main road to the airport and the central bank were both shut during bomb threats.
Office workers were told to go home early and central malls and restaurants are either shut or empty.
The city remains under a night-time curfew.
Tuk tuk driver Riswan was sitting outside a renowned Buddhist temple hoping for passengers in central Colombo.
"Now you see everywhere is empty," he said.
"What should we do? I came here in the morning and until now in the afternoon I haven't earnt anything — zero!"
Photo: All parked cars are required to display the driver's name and phone number. (ABC News)
Sri Lanka's blossoming tourism industry is likely to be crippled by the deadly suicide attacks.
After the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 and the end of the civil war in 2009, tourism boomed over the past decade, with visitors up 400 per cent.
Photo: The spice warehouse owned by the father of two brothers who are suspected of masterminding the Easter Sunday suicide bombings. (ABC News)
The industry is worth $6 billion a year to the island nation.
Sri Lanka has also scrapped a plan to give tourists from 39 countries — including Australia, the US and the UK — free visas on arrival.
The scheme was due to start on May 1 to boost visitor numbers in the off season.
But the tourism minister said that given investigations have found foreign connections to the terror plot, the country can't take the risk.
Sri Lanka's defence secretary Hemasiri Fernando resigned over intelligence failures that saw three churches and three luxury hotels bombed on Easter Sunday.
Police have released the photos and names of seven suspects they're still looking for, including three women.
Senior clerics in Sri Lanka's Muslim community have said that they will not accept the bodies of the suicide bombers and they will not be farewelled in mosques or buried in Muslim cemeteries.
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Death toll in Sri Lanka bombings revised down to 253
Official cites difficulty of identifying victims as reason for revision
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Thu 25 Apr 2019 18.20 BST Last modified on Thu 25 Apr 2019 18.34 BST
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The funeral of Dhami Brindya, 13, a victim of the bombings on Easter Sunday. Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters
Sri Lankan authorities have revised the death toll from Easter Sunday’s string of bombings down to 253 people from the previous estimate of 359.
The country’s director general for health services issued the correction on Thursday, citing the difficulty of identifying victims due to the nature of the bombings, some of which took place in closely confined spaces and left some bodies in pieces.
“The death toll from the Easter Sunday attacks is at least 253, our first estimates were 290 and it will be reduced to 253,” the director-general said in a statement. “Therefore media reports saying that the death toll is 359 are not correct. It should be 253.”
Three churches and three hotels were bombed in quick succession on Sunday morning, with other bombs going off in a private home and near Colombo’s zoo. The precise death counts in each location are still unclear but the bombing of St Sebastian’s church in Negombo, a city north of Colombo, is thought to be the deadliest, killing about 110 people.
The downward revision means the attack is no longer the deadliest ever claimed by Islamic State. A series of coordinated bombings carried out by the group in Baghdad in 2016 killed 340 people, while a bombing and mass shooting claimed by the group at a Sufi mosque in the Sinai desert the following year killed an estimated 311.
The new death toll was the second correction issued by Sri Lankan authorities on Thursday after they released six images and names of people they said were wanted in connection with the terrorist attack – only to retract one who they said was mistakenly identified as a suspect.
The woman who was wrongly named, the Muslim-American activist Amara Majeed, complained on Twitter that she had woken to find her picture on the list. “This is obviously completely false and frankly, considering that our communities are already greatly afflicted with issues of surveillance, I don’t need more false accusations and scrutiny,” she said.
Police said overnight on Thursday a further 16 people were detained for questioning, taking the number held since Sunday to at least 76, including a Syrian national.
Church services have been suspended and mosques have been advised by police not to hold Friday prayers because of the continuing safety risk.
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斯里兰卡更正爆炸死亡人数:爆炸造成约253人遇难
2019-04-26 02:24
爆炸案后军警到现场警戒。（图：路透）
海外网4月26日电据BBC消息，当地时间25日，斯里兰卡政府对爆炸案件造成的死亡人数进行了修正，爆炸案致死总人数减少100多，从之前统计的359人降至“约253人”。官方将此前数据归咎于统计错误。官方表示，爆炸案遇难者多为斯里兰卡公民，数十名外国公民亦不幸罹难。
当地时间21日至22日，斯里兰卡首都科伦坡等多地先后发生9次连环炸弹袭击，涉及至少3座教堂及3家酒店。22日，斯里兰卡卫生部长表示，这起袭击由本地激进穆斯林组织NTJ（National Thowheed Jamath）策划。当地时间23日，极端组织“伊斯兰国”宣称对斯里兰卡连环爆炸案负责，但并未提供直接证据。
目前，斯里兰卡官方已确认至少有9名自杀式袭击者参与复活节连环爆炸袭击，其中8人身份已被识别。斯里兰卡警方已发布7名与爆炸事件相关的嫌犯照片，并继续追凶。（编译/海外网 侯兴川）返回搜狐，查看更多
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Sri Lanka corrects the number of deaths in the explosion: about 253 people were killed in the explosion
2019-04-26 02:24
After the bombing, the military and police officers were on the scene. (Photo: Reuters)
According to the BBC news, on the 25th local time, the Sri Lankan government revised the number of deaths caused by the bombings. The total number of deaths caused by the bombings decreased by more than 100, from the previous statistics of 359 to "about 253 people." ". The official blamed the previous data on statistical errors. Officials said that the victims of the bombings were mostly Sri Lankan citizens, and dozens of foreign citizens were also unfortunately killed.
From the 21st to the 22nd local time, there were 9 serial bomb attacks in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo and other places, involving at least 3 churches and 3 hotels. On the 22nd, the Sri Lankan Health Minister stated that the attack was planned by the local radical Muslim organization NTJ (National Thowheed Jamath). On the 23rd local time, the extremist organization “Islamic State” claimed responsibility for the Sri Lanka serial bombing, but did not provide direct evidence.
Currently, Sri Lankan officials have confirmed that at least nine suicide attackers have participated in the Easter serial bombings, and eight of them have been identified. The Sri Lankan police have released photos of seven suspects related to the bombings and continue to pursue them. (Compile / Overseas Network Hou Xingchuan) Return to Sohu, see more
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48059328
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Sri Lanka has revised down the death toll from Sunday's blasts by more than 100, to "about 253", the health ministry says.
It has blamed a calculation error.
Suicide bombers struck hotels and churches in the Colombo area and the eastern city of Batticaloa. Hundreds were injured, officials said.
Most of those killed were Sri Lankans, but dozens of foreigners were also casualties. Nine people are suspected of carrying out the attacks.
Police have continued carrying out raids and have issued photographs of seven people wanted in connection with the attacks.
The authorities blamed a local Islamist extremist group, National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ), soon after the blasts but say the bombers must have had outside help.
The Islamic State group said it was behind the attacks and published a video showing eight men but provided no evidence of direct involvement.
In other developments:
- Hundreds of Muslims, fearing revenge attacks, have been fleeing the city of Negombo, site of one of the attacks
- Sri Lanka's defence secretary, Hemasiri Fernando, the top non-elected official at the department, announced his resignation on Thursday in response to intelligence failures
- The country's Catholic Church has announced the suspension of all church services
- Police say more than 70 people have now been arrested
- The UK Foreign Office is now warning against all but essential travel to Sri Lanka
Media captionRamesh was killed in the blast in Batticaloa Why was the wrong toll given?
Sri Lankan Deputy Defence Minister Ruwan Wijewardene said morgues had provided inaccurate figures.
Another official, the head of health services, told Reuters news agency there had been so many body parts it was "difficult to give a precise figure".
According to the health ministry, all autopsies had been completed late on Thursday and it transpired that some victims had been counted more than once.
BBC World Service South Asia editor Jill McGivering says the revised figure comes as the government is struggling to restore its credibility - amid criticism of its apparent failure to respond to intelligence warnings before the attacks.
It's also battling to counter fake news and false rumours about the crisis, she says. This sudden dramatic revision is unlikely to help.
What is the situation with the Muslim minority?
Muslims in Sri Lanka are reporting feeling fearful and say they are facing persecution.
Many of those in Negombo belong to a minority sect, the Ahmadi. Some have been sheltering in a mosque under police protection.
Ahmadi Muslims identify as Muslim and follow the Koran, but are viewed by many orthodox Muslims as heretical.
Many of those living in Sri Lanka have fled from persecution elsewhere, including Pakistan.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has admitted that some Ahmadis have been subject to attacks. Of Sri Lanka's 21-million population, just under 10% are Muslims.
A community in fear
Muralitharan Kasiviswanathan, BBC Tamil, Negombo
As of Wednesday, more than 600 Ahmadis had taken refuge at Faizul Mosque in Negombo, one of the five Ahmadi mosques in Sri Lanka.
Most of the Ahmadis were renting their homes from Catholic Christians. Although the bomb blasts happened on 21 April, it was on the 24th that things got scary for the Ahmadis.
"My home is some streets away from the church. After the attack, the owner of my house was very worried and asked me to be safe somewhere. I am paying 13,000 rupees [£58; $74] for that house. Most of us paid a year's rent an advance. Where will we go now?" asks 27-year-old Habis Rabba Soaib.
About 800 Ahmadis from Pakistan live here with the help of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. Fearing religious prosecution, they fled Pakistan and came to Negombo. From here they seek asylum in European countries or the US.
Although the Faizul mosque is small, officials of the mosque are taking care of them and sending most of them to another mosque, Pesalay, which is in a safer location. This mosque is now guarded by army and the police.
More than 5,000 native Ahmadis live in Negombo. Many of them have lived here for years and now own houses and businesses.
"Since we have been here for a long time, nobody is threatening us," says one of the Muslim youths who is busy helping the Pakistanis.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-26/sri-lanka-bombings:-more-terror-attacks-very-likely/11047728
Sri Lanka bombings: More terror attacks 'very likely' as death toll revised
By South Asia correspondent Siobhan Heanue
Updated about an hour ago
Photo: Colombo's streets are not as busy as usual after suicide bombings rocked the city. (ABC News: Brant Cumming) Related Story: Pregnant wife of Sri Lanka bomber detonates suicide vest, killing children
Related Story: Unrestrained grief as Australian dad buries wife and daughter killed in Sri Lanka church bombing
Related Story: Denmark's richest man loses three children in Sri Lanka terrorist attacks
More terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka are "very likely", nearly a week after the Easter Sunday bombings that killed hundreds of people.
Key points:
- Death toll from deadly suicide Easter bombings revised down to 250 or 260
- The attacks threaten the booming tourism industry, which was up 400 per cent
- Muslim clerics will not accept the bodies of the suicide bombers
The UK foreign office has said that terrorists are very likely to try to carry out further attacks and advised travellers against all but essential travel.
The US has warned that further attacks are likely over the weekend, and urged people to avoid crowded places and places of worship.
The death toll from the suicide bomb blasts stands at around 100 fewer deaths than previously reported, down from 359 to around 250, a Sri Lankan health official told Reuters.
"It could be 250 or 260. I can't exactly say," said Anil Jasinghe, the director general of Sri Lanka's health services.
"There are so many body parts and it is difficult to give a precise figure."
Deputy defence minister Ruwan Wijewardene said the death toll had been revised down to 253 due to inaccurate figures provided by the country's morgues."Unfortunately the health ministry provided the earlier number to us," he said.
Photo: Many popular tourist sites, including temples, are empty of visitors after the bombings rocked Sri Lanka. (ABC News) Bomb scares impacting tourism
Regular bomb scares in Colombo mean the city remains emptied of tourists, with many opting to leave the country or stay in their hotel rooms.
The main road to the airport and the central bank were both shut during bomb threats.
Office workers were told to go home early and central malls and restaurants are either shut or empty.
The city remains under a night-time curfew.
Tuk tuk driver Riswan was sitting outside a renowned Buddhist temple hoping for passengers in central Colombo.
"Now you see everywhere is empty," he said.
"What should we do? I came here in the morning and until now in the afternoon I haven't earnt anything — zero!"
"We don't know how to feed our kids".
Photo: All parked cars are required to display the driver's name and phone number. (ABC News) Sri Lanka's blossoming tourism industry is likely to be crippled by the deadly suicide attacks.
After the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 and the end of the civil war in 2009, tourism boomed over the past decade, with visitors up 400 per cent.
Photo: The spice warehouse owned by the father of two brothers who are suspected of masterminding the Easter Sunday suicide bombings. (ABC News) The industry is worth $6 billion a year to the island nation.
Sri Lanka has also scrapped a plan to give tourists from 39 countries — including Australia, the US and the UK — free visas on arrival.
The scheme was due to start on May 1 to boost visitor numbers in the off season.
But the tourism minister said that given investigations have found foreign connections to the terror plot, the country can't take the risk.
Sri Lanka's defence secretary Hemasiri Fernando resigned over intelligence failures that saw three churches and three luxury hotels bombed on Easter Sunday.
Police have released the photos and names of seven suspects they're still looking for, including three women.
Senior clerics in Sri Lanka's Muslim community have said that they will not accept the bodies of the suicide bombers and they will not be farewelled in mosques or buried in Muslim cemeteries.
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Video: Sri Lanka's capital is rocked by explosions set off during Easter Sunday services (ABC News)
Topics: terrorism, law-crime-and-justice, travel-and-tourism, tourism, sri-lanka
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/25/death-toll-in-sri-lanka-bombings-revised-down-to-253
Death toll in Sri Lanka bombings revised down to 253
Official cites difficulty of identifying victims as reason for revision
Michael Safi
@safimichael
Thu 25 Apr 2019 18.20 BST Last modified on Thu 25 Apr 2019 18.34 BST
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The funeral of Dhami Brindya, 13, a victim of the bombings on Easter Sunday. Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters
Sri Lankan authorities have revised the death toll from Easter Sunday’s string of bombings down to 253 people from the previous estimate of 359.
The country’s director general for health services issued the correction on Thursday, citing the difficulty of identifying victims due to the nature of the bombings, some of which took place in closely confined spaces and left some bodies in pieces.
“The death toll from the Easter Sunday attacks is at least 253, our first estimates were 290 and it will be reduced to 253,” the director-general said in a statement. “Therefore media reports saying that the death toll is 359 are not correct. It should be 253.”
Three churches and three hotels were bombed in quick succession on Sunday morning, with other bombs going off in a private home and near Colombo’s zoo. The precise death counts in each location are still unclear but the bombing of St Sebastian’s church in Negombo, a city north of Colombo, is thought to be the deadliest, killing about 110 people.
The downward revision means the attack is no longer the deadliest ever claimed by Islamic State. A series of coordinated bombings carried out by the group in Baghdad in 2016 killed 340 people, while a bombing and mass shooting claimed by the group at a Sufi mosque in the Sinai desert the following year killed an estimated 311.
The new death toll was the second correction issued by Sri Lankan authorities on Thursday after they released six images and names of people they said were wanted in connection with the terrorist attack – only to retract one who they said was mistakenly identified as a suspect.
The woman who was wrongly named, the Muslim-American activist Amara Majeed, complained on Twitter that she had woken to find her picture on the list. “This is obviously completely false and frankly, considering that our communities are already greatly afflicted with issues of surveillance, I don’t need more false accusations and scrutiny,” she said.
Police said overnight on Thursday a further 16 people were detained for questioning, taking the number held since Sunday to at least 76, including a Syrian national.
Church services have been suspended and mosques have been advised by police not to hold Friday prayers because of the continuing safety risk.
