Sri Lankan woman loses most of her family in Easter bombings

AP  |  Negombo 

On Sunday, 43-year-old was left childless and a widow when suicide bombers launched a coordinated attack on churches and luxury hotels in

More than 350 people were killed in the near-simultaneous bombings. About a third of the victims were celebrating Mass at in Negombo.

Kumari lost her daughter, son, husband, sister-in-law and two nieces.

They were buried three days later on some vacant land near the stricken church that has quickly become a cemetery for some of the bombing victims.

Sri Lanka's has asked for the resignations of the after acknowledging that some intelligence units were aware of threats to churches before the bombings.

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First Published: Wed, April 24 2019. 20:45 IST