Sri Lanka buried more of its dead on Tuesday from suicide bomb attacks on churches holding Easter services and luxury hotels that killed 321 people in the country’s worst violence in a decade.
More than 1,000 mourners gathered at the St. Sebastian church in the coastal city of Negombo, just north of the capital, Colombo, where more than 100 parishioners were killed as they worshipped on Sunday morning.
The ceremony began with prayers and singing under a tent put up in the church courtyard.
Pall-bearers dressed in white then carried in the coffins one by one.
Relatives gathered around the wooden coffins, crying and comforting each other.
Some were overcome by the grief and sweltering heat and needed support from family members.
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the archbishop of Sri Lanka, who led the service, urged other churches to delay memorials amid fears that more bombers may be at large.
“The security forces have not cleared the situation yet … there could be more…
