Published 19:44 IST, April 21st 2019

'Stay Strong Sri Lanka': Anupam Kher, Anil Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty, Sonakshi Sinha and others react on the horrific Colombo blasts

Bollywood fraternity extends their prayers to Sri Lanka.

Reported by: Chetna Kapoor
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On Easter Sunday, world woke up to a shocking news of bomb blasts in Colombo. 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.

Bollywood celebrities have been pouring ir heartfelt messs over trdy. Actor Anupam Kher, conveyed his grief and wrote on Twitter: "Deeply saddened by loss of incent lives in terrible terrorist attacks in  #SriLanka. My heart goes out to families who have lost ir dear ones. Prayers for speedy recovery of injured.  Stay strong #SriLanka. We are all with you.🙏🙏" [sic]

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Anil Kapoor too couldn't take in news and raised a question condemning attack on his Twitter 'When will we live in peace?'. He wrote: "How many more incent lives will have to be lost like this? 
When will we live in peace? 
Stay strong #SriLanka. 
We are with you. 🙏🏻" [sic]

'Kalank' actress Sonakshi Sinha too extended her prayers to victims and ir families and wrote: "Extremely saddened by news coming in from Sri Lanka. Makes you question humanity... thoughts and prayers with all those affected #PrayForSriLanka" [sic]

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Or Bollywood actors like Rajkummar Rao, Ileana D'Cruz, Preity Zinta, Suniel Shetty, Athiya Shetty too reacted on Sri Lanka bombing. Read ir tweets -

Meanwhile, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has chaired a high-level security meeting pertaining to attacks.

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Reports have said that seven suspects were arrested by Sri Lankan Police on same evening and three cops have been killed in bombings.

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Extending support to people of Sri Lanka, PM Modi has also shared remarks on horrifying blasts and offered prayers to families of victims and injured. He furr stated that India stands in solidarity with people of Sri Lanka.

19:36 IST, April 21st 2019