Sri Lankans pay tribute after a series of bombs killed at least 290 and injured at least 450 people in multiple cities across the country Sunday (April 21). <br /><br />Some of the country's most famous hotels and churches were partially destroyed by the blasts, which killed tourists and Christian worshippers on Easter Sunday.<br /><br />Sri Lankan officials promised citizens that the government has begun to sort out next steps and that twenty-four people have been arrested in connection to the bombings.<br /><br />The first explosion went off in the St. Anthony’s Shrine, Kochchikade in Colombo, the second - in the St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo, 30 km north of Colombo, the third bomb was detonated in a church in the town of Batticaloa in the east of the country. <br /><br />Around the same time, the explosions hit the Shangri-La, Cinnamon Grand and Kingsbury hotels in the Sri Lankan capital. The seventh blast happened in the Colombo zoo, while the eighth bomb exploded in the Dematagoda, a suburb in Colombo.
