Pregnant Wife of Sri Lankan Bomber Detonates Suicide Vest as Police Raids Home

Pregnant Wife of Sri Lankan Bomber Detonates Suicide Vest as Police Raids Home
A woman reacts during a mass burial of victims, two days after a string of suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels across the island on Easter Sunday, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 23, 2019. Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters
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The pregnant wife of a Sri Lankan suicide bomber detonated a suicide vest when police raided the family’s Colombo home, killing herself, her children, and police officers.

A series of coordinated attacks on hotels and churches devastated Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday leaving at least 250 people dead and hundreds more injured. The Health Ministry revised the death toll from 359 casualties on April 25, blaming it on a calculation error, reported BBC.