ChinesePod Today: Sri Lanka Attacked on Easter Sunday (simp. characters)
- 5 years ago
ChinesePod News (April 22, 2019)
A wave of coordinated explosions have been reported across Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Three churches and three luxury hotels were subjected to the attacks. More than 200 people were reported dead and hundreds more injured, with expected death tolls to rise. Defense officials have linked the attacks to religious extremists and suicide bombers.
NOTE: This video features SIMPLIFIED characters, which are used in Mainland China. For viewers studying the form of written Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan (traditional), the traditional-character version of this story (alongside all others of ChinesePod Today) is available at https://youtu.be/NihpxfU0CsY
This ChinesePod Today news broadcast includes the following vocabulary:
连环 a series of
锁定 to target
罹难 to die in a disaster
激进份子extremist
宵禁 curfew
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A wave of coordinated explosions have been reported across Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Three churches and three luxury hotels were subjected to the attacks. More than 200 people were reported dead and hundreds more injured, with expected death tolls to rise. Defense officials have linked the attacks to religious extremists and suicide bombers.
NOTE: This video features SIMPLIFIED characters, which are used in Mainland China. For viewers studying the form of written Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan (traditional), the traditional-character version of this story (alongside all others of ChinesePod Today) is available at https://youtu.be/NihpxfU0CsY
This ChinesePod Today news broadcast includes the following vocabulary:
连环 a series of
锁定 to target
罹难 to die in a disaster
激进份子extremist
宵禁 curfew
Go to ChinesePod.com for more great lessons and videos!
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