On Easter Sunday, Skir Lanka suffered a series of bombings that killed more than 300 people at churches and top-end hotels. It is one of the deadliest violences in the country sinch the end of the civil war a decade ago.
Most of the victims are believed to be Sri Lankans but at least 31 were foreigners plus 14 still unaccounted for. The government said a little jihadist group was behind the attacks and police have made arrests. This group is the National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ).
NTJ has no history of large-scale attacks, they have been said to have damaged Buddhist statues last year.
The first reports were around 08:45 (03:15 GMT) on Sunday April 21. Six blasts took place within a short amount of time. Three of which were churches in Colombo, Negombo and in Batticaloa. Three other blasts were in the Shangri-La, Kingsbury and Cinnamon Grand hotels in Colombo.
A further two explosions were reported later as police searched for suspects, one in Dehiwala in southern Colombo, and another near the Colombo district of Dematagoda, during a police raid.
Police have not gave exact numbers of how many people died at each of the attacks. Later on Sunday an explosive device was found and disposed close to the countries main airport near Colombo. On Monday another blast took place in a street near the capital. Police were attempting to defuse explosives in a vehicle used by the attacker when it blew up.
On Tuesday the official death toll given by authorities rose to 310 with more than 500 injured. Sri Lankans killed in the blasts included members of church congregations and staff at the hotels targeted. The confirmed international casualties are from the UK, Denmark, Portugal, India, Turkey, Australia, the Netherlands, Japan, the US and China.
Addressing reports that officials had had prior intelligence of forthcoming attacks, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said: “We must look into why adequate precautions were not taken. Neither I nor the ministers were kept informed.”
Police have arrested 40 people and said all the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers.
Sri Lankans have started to bury the dead from the attacks, the number of dead is believed to be at least 310. The mass funeral had 30 victims laid to rest at St Sebastian church in Negombo. Another funeral will take place shortly.
The country has had three minutes silence and a state of emergency is in effect to prevent further attacks.
