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Churches fall silent in Sri Lanka a week after attacks

By Reuters | Apr. 28, 2019

**A man reacts during mass burials near St. Sebastian church in Negombo, Sri Lanka April 28, 2019. [Reuters]**

Churches across Sri Lanka suspended Sunday mass and the Archbishop of Colombo delivered a televised special sermon from a chapel at his home, as fears of more attacks remained a week after suicide bombers killed over 250 in churches and hotels.

Sri Lanka has been on high alert since the attacks on Easter Sunday, with nearly 10,000 soldiers deployed across the island to carry out searches and hunt down members of two local Islamist groups believed to have carried out the attack.

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