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    Sri Lanka was a popular travel destination. Bombings are 'a big blow' to its vital tourism

    by Shashank Bengali and Munza Mushtaq, Los Angeles Times Apr 25, 2019 4 minutes

    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Kithsiri De Silva, the head chef at Sri Lanka's venerable Kingsbury Hotel, walked through the main restaurant during breakfast Sunday, greeting diners and surveying the extravagant buffet.

    He would have seen, he thinks now with dread, the guest who moments later detonated a suicide bomb in the middle of the dining room, one of a coordinated sequence of blasts against hotels and churches that killed 359 people and wounded hundreds.

    The bombings claimed by Islamic State - among the deadliest terrorist attacks in the world in recent years - have shattered Sri Lanka's fragile recovery from civil war and threaten

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