Easter Sunday bombings kill scores in Sri Lanka

Security personnel stand near where a device was detonated April 22 in a van in Colombo, one day after devastating bombings in Sri Lanka killed nearly 300 people.

Sri Lankans are evacuated April 22 after a van was found parked with a suspected explosive device near St. Anthony’s church, which was among targets of the devastating Easter Sunday explosions.

A Sri Lankan woman living near St. Anthony’s Shrine hurries away with her infant after police find a device in a parked van in Colombo on April 22. The device was exploded, and there were no casualties.

People pray outside the St. Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo, a day after the building was hit as part of a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka.

Soldiers secure an area near St. Anthony’s Shrine on April 22. A device found in a van was detonated one day after a series of bomb blasts targeted churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan security personnel pass bodies covered with blankets amid blast debris at St. Anthony’s Shrine.

Sri Lankan soldiers secure the area after an explosion at St. Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo.

Sri Lankan soldiers secure the area around St. Anthony’s Shrine after an April 21 explosion in Colombo.

A victim’s relative weeps outside a hospital in Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka after the Easter Sunday bombings.

An injured Sri Lankan woman is moved on a hospital stretcher after an explosion at a Batticaloa church.

Security personnel and investigators look through debris outside Zion Church in Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka after an explosion April 21.

Relatives of bombing victims mourn as they wait outside a hospital mortuary in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

A Sri Lankan police officer and a local stand outside St. Anthony’s Shrine after an explosion April 21.

A Sri Lankan woman is helped near St. Anthony’s Shrine after an explosion in Colombo.

Sri Lankan firefighters work the scene after an explosion at St. Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo.

Police cordon off the area after an explosion at St. Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo.