Published 19:05 IST, April 21st 2019

Sri Lanka blasts: Rajinikanth expresses his sorrow, Kamal Haasan writes, ‘Ironic that the island that spawned the word serendipity is not able to find it’

People from all over the world have been expressing shock at the bomb blasts that rocked Colombo on Easter Sunday. Celebrities from the Indian film industry too have been pouring out their hearts out over the tragedy that claimed the lives of over 180 persons and injured over 400. Actor-politicians Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan, who are popular stars in Tamil, the second language in Sri Lanka, conveyed their grief over the tragedy while condoling the families of the victims. 

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People from all over world have been expressing shock at bomb blasts that rocked Colombo on Easter Sunday. Celebrities from Indian film industry too have been pouring out ir hearts out over trdy that claimed lives of over 180 persons and injured over 400. Actor-politicians Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan, who are popular stars in Tamil, second langu in Sri Lanka, conveyed ir grief over trdy while condoling families of victims. 

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In a tweet in Tamil, Rajinikanth wrote, “I have words to express sorrow I feel towards people who have suffered due to blasts on this Easter Day in Sri Lanka.” 

Haasan believed violence can never be final solution to human disagreements.  veteran ded that he found it ironic that island that spawned serendipity (Sri Lanka’s ancient name was Serendip) is t able to find it. actor-politician also conveyed his sympathies to victims while hoping that government is impartial and swift in delivering justice. 

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Earlier, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe dressed media and said 'action will be taken to stop activity of all extremist groups in country. Social media would be temporarily banned with 12-hour curfew from 6 pm to 6 am.'

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On Sunday, three churches- St Anthony's Church in Colombo, St Sebastian's Church in western coastal town of Negombo and ar church in eastern town of Batticaloa and three hotels, Shangrila, Cinnamon Grand, and Kingsbury were targeted, killing 185 people and injuring over 400, as per reports. re were two more blasts in Dematagoda and Dehiwala in day, as per reports.

18:48 IST, April 21st 2019