Pugoda, Sri Lanka: Four days after the deadly serial blasts claimed at least 359 lives, an explosion was reported on Thursday in Sri Lanka’s Pugada town, about 40 Km east of the capital Colombo, police sources said.
A minor explosion was reported on Thursday from a vacant plot of land in Pugoda on the outskirts of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, police said.
There were no reports of any casualty.
The blast occurred in a garbage dump behind the Pugoda magistrate’s court, The Daily Mirror said quoting the police.
On April 21, eight explosions rattled Sri Lankan cities of Colombo, Negombo, Kochchikede and Batticaloa as the Christian community celebrated Easter Sunday.
The police however, did not provide any other details of the blast which comes four days after the serial Easter Sunday bombings that killed 359 people and injured hundreds of others in the bloodiest day in Sri Lanka since the end of the civil war a decade ago, reports Xinhua news agency.
At least 359 people were killed and over 500 others were injured in the serial blasts. The casualties included 39 foreign nationals, including 10 Indians.
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