GENEVE, (Pakistan Point News - 23rd Apr, 2019) UNICEF says it is working closely with Government partners to collect reliable information on situation of children and adolescents impacted by the recent terrible violence in Sri Lanka.
In a statement, the Fund expressed deepest sympathy to the victims, families and communities impacted by these brutal attacks.
Based on the news reports, the UNICEF estimated that 27 children died and 10 were injured in St Sebastian’s Church Katuwapitiya, Negombo, 13 in in Batticaloa, with the youngest victim just 18 months old. Five children of foreign nationality are confirmed to have died.
Fifteen children aged between 7 years and 16 years are receiving treatment in hospital. Twenty children have been admitted to hospital in Colombo, with four of them in intensive care (ICU), as a result of the blasts in Colombo.
Many children have lost one or both parents, and countless children have been witness to shocking and senseless violence, the world body said in the statement.
