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sri lankan air force official managed to diffuse an ied left on the roadside next to the colombo international airportn easter sunday that brought the worst violence sri lanka has seen since the end of the civil war ten years ago. the death toll of 207 could likely rise given how many people were injured. by some tallies, more than 400 people injured. nine foreign nationals missing and 25 unidentified bodies believed to be foreigners that are still at the mortuary and waiting for identification. phillip, in terms of the investigation, attention is turning to what vi listen kan authorities knew and when about the possibility of this sort of attack. today, the prime minister acknowledged that there had been information on potential terror attacks saying an investigation will take place into why precautions weren't taken. at this point, seven suspects arrested following the raids. the defense minister is describing this as a terrorist attack by religious extremists. phillip? >> such a heart breaking day. >>> coming up, to impeach or not to impeach? it is the question facing 2020 democratic candidates and

only explosion of attack that we heard of was indeed gumbo about one off outside colombo close to the international airport but also now hearing of an explosion in a church in the east of the country in back a little weak as many as twenty five people dead in that explosion so it's not just limited to the number of locals to be channeling those supporting a statement issued by the police of putting the death toll at over one hundred basically a hundred and five c. for one hundred five feet ality according to that police spokesman does not say hearing so far seven and just talk us through in the capital at least where the church is in the hotels are and which hotel the talkative man elf. and basically he talked of colombo the city of colombo that is sort of a precinct if you like that has all these five star hotels dotted around them it is also the way you have sort of the conventional district many of the big businesses the banks all of those things in that gender d.b.'s and this is where we're finding that the pros and the assassin against the czechs the finance and he just a resisted catholic shrine boug

colombo struggle to cope with hundreds of victims. and in other news libya's un recognized government reopens tripoli's international airport after intense fighting with forces loyal to the warlord cut if i have to. for now we start with breaking news from sri lanka where we are getting reports of another explosion this follows a series of bomb attacks earlier on sunday which killed at least one hundred fifty six people and injured over four hundred more police say the coordination explosions happened at several churches and hotel resorts mostly in the capital colombo the attacks targeted tourists and where ship is during easter sunday church services well our correspondent in elf amanda's joins us live now from outside samantha nice shrine one of the churches attacked in colombo yet another blast some hours after the first attacks what do we know. so far what we've heard is that this latest explosion has ripped through basically a restaurant opposite the national zoo in a suburb just outside the city an area called they have a lot of obviously sunday a holiday weekend and a huge draw possibly to the zoo and that sort of eating house rig

colombo the capital city. and then. just goes for the international airport. churches and netty in five star hotels and around over one hundred people have been admitted to hospital for treatment and there have been. around going to cash it is reported and has there been any response yet from the government from security officials. sorry i can't hear your culture has there been any response from the government from security officials. for you have the obviously issued a statement regarding the explosions in. london colombo and london they got. there have been nor the ship statement regarding explosions and i said what is in colombo. and just bring us up to date as she can if you can about the casualty figures we were hearing that it was something in the region of about one hundred sixty yes or by three point eight five. that's the number of dead but in terms of the number of injured what are you hearing that's not the exact number but up to now it's all looking to. and where they taking i mean obviously if there are six different locations or quite a number of