Security at churches across Sri Lanka have been beefed up ahead of Easter, police said on Saturday, ahead of the second anniversary of the April 2019 coordinated attacks on tourists and minority Christian community in the country in which 270 people, including 11 Indians, were killed.
The security personnel include 9,350 police officials and 2,542 troops from the tri forces (Army, Nay and Air Force), he said. Rohana said some 111 churches in the western coastal town of Negombo would be provided security, along with 107 churches in the neighbouring coastal town of Chilaw and some 98 churches in the eastern town of Batticaloa.
The St Sebastian’s Church at Negombo’s Katuwapitiya was the worst-hit in the Easter Sunday blasts.