Reuters Colombo correspondent Shihar Aneez was at a hockey game when suicide bom...
COLOMBO - Reuters Colombo correspondent Shihar Aneez was at a hockey game when suicide bombers attacked churches and hotels across Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing over 250 people and wounding hundreds more.
Within minutes he heard of other attacks, including at three major hotels in the heart of Colombo - a ghastly throwback to the bloody civil war between government forces and Tamil separatists that ended in 2009.“I went to the Cinnamon Grand, Shangri-la and Kingsberry hotels and saw terrible scenes of devastation and human tragedy,” Shihar said. “It reminded me of Sri Lanka’s three-decade war when Colombo was the target of frequent bombings by Tamil Tiger rebels.
Most of the journalists in Reuters’ Sri Lanka bureau had cut their teeth reporting on the civil war, but in the past decade the story had shifted to the rebuilding of the economy, the arrival of tourists and Chinese investment. Photojournalist Dinuka Liyanawatte filed initial pictures from his mobile phone to get them out speedily before switching to his main cameras.
“I felt the whole country was brought to a standstill. Even during the separatist war, we never saw empty schools, but the Easter Sunday attacks completely shut down all schools and sports activities, not only in Colombo, but across the country.”
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