A Sri Lankan court convicts 15 people over the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings in Colombo, involving coordinated attacks on churches and tourist hotels. The verdict follows trial proceedings related to the suicide attacks carried out on multiple sites.
Sources describe the attacks as occurring in April 2019 and targeting three churches and three hotels. Reported death tolls differ slightly across outlets, with figures ranging from about 260 to 279, and the number of wounded reported as roughly double the number killed. BBC reports approximately 270 deaths, while Al Jazeera and others cite similar but not identical totals.
While all outlets agree on the basic outline—15 convictions and multiple coordinated bombings against churches and hotels during Easter 2019—each publication emphasizes different aspects of the casualty figures and timing. The common ground across reports is that the court verdict relates to deadly, coordinated suicide attacks across several locations in Colombo that killed civilians and injured many others.
