By APD writer Easwaran

COLOMBO, April 24 (APD) - The death toll from the deadly Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka has gone beyond 350, the Police said on Wednesday.

The Police said that as of Wednesday morning the death toll had reached 359.

Suicide bombers attacked St. Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo, St. Sebastian’s in Negambo, Zion Church in Batticaloa, the Shangri-La, Cinnamon Grand, and Kingsbury hotels in Colombo on Sunday.

The number of foreign nationals who have been identified as killed is 34, the Foreign Ministry said.

The fatalities are one from Bangladesh, two from China, ten from India, three from Denmark, one from Japan, one from the Netherlands, one from Portugal, two from Saudi Arabia, one from Spain, two from Turkey, six from the UK, two holding US and UK nationalities, and two holding Australian and Sri Lankan nationalities.

Additionally, 14 foreign nationals are unaccounted for at present, and could be among the unidentified victims at the Colombo Judicial Medical Officer’s mortuary.

At least 45 children are among those killed in Sri Lanka during the Easter Sunday attacks.

(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)