earlier i spoke to asela waidyalankara, he lives in colombo and can see the smoke from one of the blastsuse. we were watching the news and heard a loud explosion, very closeby. i climbed to my rooftop to see what was happening and i could see white smoke about 1 kilometre away from where i am. immediately afterwards, there were some helicopters that flew by and then we could hear ambulances and fire trucks coming. a little bit later, we heard another helicopter doing a flyby as well. what was the target of this seventh explosion? what we heard from local news sources it was a small hotel very close by to the zoo. that seems to be the area of the seventh explosion. how are you getting your information? how easy is it, because i understand social media platforms have been closed down? currently, it's only been mainstream news. there is currently a curfew in operation. there was a subsequent news bullletin that told us that the curfew was immediately in effect, indefinitely. social media—wise, facebook, instagram, whatsapp are not accessible to sri lankans at the moment. however, twitter is