{"id":73770,"date":"2019-04-30T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T12:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=73770"},"modified":"2019-04-30T12:50:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T12:50:33","slug":"sri-lanka-bomb-explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/sri-lanka-bomb-explosions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Bomb Explosions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<strong>Question: Consider the following statements regarding Sri Lanka bomb explosion:<\/strong>\n<br>(1)\tSri Lanka bomb explosion took place on 21st  April 2019 \n<br>(2)\tThe attacks were quite coordinated and were targeted at minority Christians as well as foreign nationals\n<strong><br>Choose the correct statement\/s from the above:<\/strong>\n<br>(a)\tOnly (1)\n<br>(b)\tOnly (2)\n<br>(c)\tBoth (1) and (2)\n<br>(d)\tNeither (1) or (2)\n<strong><br>Answer: (c)\n<br>Related facts:<\/strong>\n\n\n\n\n<ul><li>On 21<sup>st<\/sup> April 2019 during Easter services, a series of bomb blast took place in Sri Lanka targeting churches and five-star hotels in Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa. <\/li><li>It is one of biggest attack in Sri Lanka since the war against LTTE ended in 2009.<\/li><li>In the major terrorist attack&nbsp;253 people were killed, including at least 42 foreign nationalsand three police officers, and at least 500 were injured.<\/li>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7086827700842303\" data-ad-slot=\"2662621974\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<li>As per Sri Lankan government officials, all seven of the suicide bombers in the attacks were Sri Lankan citizens associated with&nbsp;National Thowheeth Jama&#8217;ath, a local militant&nbsp;Islamist&nbsp;group with suspected foreign ties, earlier known for attacks against&nbsp;Buddhists.<\/li><li>The explosions hit historic St. Anthony&#8217;s Church in Colombo,St. Sebastian&#8217;s church in the town of Negombo and the Zion Church in the east coast town of Batticaloa.<\/li><li>The hotels that were bombed were the Shangri-La, Cinnamon Grand, Kingsbury and Tropical Inn. <\/li><li>Later,in a move to ensure security President Maithripala Sirisena&nbsp; banned any face garment which &#8220;hinders identification&#8221; by an emergency law .<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsonair.com\/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=362527\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.newsonair.com\/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=362527<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/21\/asia\/sri-lanka-explosions\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/21\/asia\/sri-lanka-explosions\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2019_Sri_Lanka_Easter_bombings\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2019_Sri_Lanka_Easter_bombings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-48088834\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-48088834<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Consider the following statements regarding Sri Lanka bomb explosion: (1) Sri Lanka bomb explosion took place on 21st April 2019 (2) The attacks were quite coordinated and were targeted at minority Christians as well as foreign nationals Choose the correct statement\/s from the above: (a) Only (1) (b) Only (2) (c) Both (1) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-73770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}