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Archbishop Welby bowed his head and prayed at the site of the explosion – a glass covered tiled floor where the suicide bomber set off his bomb during the Easter Mass. The Revd. Welby then paid tribute to the victims of the Easter Sunday bomb.The Archbishop of Canterbury was earlier given a grand welcome at the Bandaranaike International Airport by a group of Government leaders led by Ministers Arjuna Ranatunge and John Amaratunge.
He is scheduled to visit the Temple of the Tooth Relic and to call on the Chief Prelates of the Malwatte and Asgiriya chapters today.