SRI LANKA ATTACKS:
- 200 dead
- 525 injured
- Eight bomb blasts
- Churches and luxury hotels
- Curfew issued, starts at 6 PM local (currently 2:50 PM)
- Americans among those killed
2:22 AM - 21 Apr 2019
https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1119894153914146818
Unfortunately, we can almost predict how this will go. Initial blasts, report, then first report of casualties, 20-25, suffice it to say, 200 now. I didn't think it would hit this high, I was thinking 80-100.
It sure looks like ISIS.
Sri Lanka on a map, South of India, just in case someone doesn't know.
I'm going off the top of my head but I think they area largely Buddhist country, some Hindus, surely they have some Muslims. This looks like an Islamic terrorist act. It certainly appears to be a well-coordinated attack.
In the past, it sounds like they have had civil war there, the Tamils... I would think this has nothing to do with that. I look at the map, a fairly small island. It's hard to judge the sizes of countries really.
Checking some stats,
Over 20,000,000 people, So, for an island, a big population I'd say.
As a comparison, square miles.
Sri Lanka, 25,332 sq. miles
Pennsylvania 46,055 sq miles
So, PA. is almost 2 times as big.