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Indian couple recalls movie style escape from Lanka terror attacks

Dubai: A Dubai-based Indian couple barely got away from the impact at Colombos Cinnamon Grand lodging, which was one of the eight focuses of the April 21 sequential bombings in Sri Lanka, the media gave an account of Sunday. 

Abhinav Chari and his significant other, Navroop K Chari were in the island country for a work excursion and were remaining at the Cinnamon Grand where a bomb had gone off while the Easter Sunday breakfast buffet was being served. 

Abhinav, who experienced childhood in Dubai like his better half Naroop, he has gone out of the United Arab Emirates just twice and the multiple times, he saw horric detest violations that were basically religious fear based oppression. 

The first such experience was in Mumbai in 2008 when fear based oppressors completed a progression of 12 facilitated shooting and bombarding assaults.

"I was in Mumbai in 2008 studying for medicine. It was a horrible veor six-day ordeal." Speaking of his Sri Lanka ordeal, Chari said: "On Easter Sunday, we went to church. In the middle of the service, the priest made an After we left the church we got into a taxi to go get some breakfast because that is what we would normally do after Easter mass. We started noticing a commotion on the roads and decided it was better to
go back to the hotel.

"When we reached there we saw everyone out on the lawn. We thought it was just some sort of security protocol"
Navroop told "It was too soon to know anything on the news or social media, we still hadn't registered the scale of the incident. I could not believe what was happening in front of us. It was all like a movie..."

The deadly bombings that targeted churches and hotels, most of them in Colombo, claimed the lives of 253 people and injured over 500 others, in the bloodiest attacks in Sri Lanka since the civil war ended a decade ago.

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