Jaffna District Secretariat paid tribute today to those killed during the Easter Sunday bombings by Islamist extremists.
Government officials and Secretariat emplotees lit candles and held a minute's silence in memory of the victims.
Over 250 people were killed when suicide bombers attacked luxury hotels in Colombo, as well as churches in the capital, Negombo and Batticaloa.
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