Dubai’s Burj Khalifa lights up with Sri Lanka flag

Dubai’s iconic skyscraper Burj Khalifa lit up to the colours of Sri Lanka’s flag to show solidarity with the victims of the suicide bombings on Easter Sunday.

The tallest and most famous skyscraper in the world was litup Thursday and it hoped for a world built on tolerance and coexistence.

   

“#BurjKhalifa lights up in solidarity with #SriLanka.Here’s to a world built on tolerance and coexistence,” according to atweet on the official twitter account of the skyscraper.

Apart from the Burj Khalifa, iconic landmarks in Abu Dhabialso lit up with the colours of Sri Lanka’s national flag, Khaleej Timesreported.

The Emirates Palace, Sheikh Zayed Bridge, ADNOC building,Capital Gate were among the buildings decked up in Sri Lankan colours, thereport said.

Nine suicide bombers, believed to be the members of a localIslamist extremist group National Tawheed Jamath (NTJ), carried out a series ofdevastating blasts that tore through three churches, two of them Catholic, andthree luxury hotels packed with Easter worshippers on Sunday, killing at 253people and wounding more than 500 others.

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