Celebrities criticised for self-absorbed tweets post Istanbul attack

Blame it on Hrithik Roshan, Celina Jaitly and Cher

Blame it on Hrithik Roshan, Celina Jaitly and Cher.

The deadly suicide bombings at the Istanbul Ataturk airport that claimed many lives and left hundreds injured on Tuesday shook the entire world.

Many people took to Twitter to express grief and solitude over the heinous act.

Bollywood celebrities such as Abhishek Bachchan and Sidharth Malhotra as well as Hollywood bigwigs Elijah Woods and Pink sent out condolences...






Hrithik Roshan was at Istanbul airport hours before deadly suicide bombings

Tweets by Hrithik Roshan, Celina Jaitly and Cher, however, didn't go down well with followers who termed their messages "insensitive".

The Bang Bang actor shared how travelling in economy class saved his life as he was at the Istanbul airport with his sons hours before the attack.



Naturally, some weren't happy with Hrithik mentioning travelling economy class and trivialising the incident






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Similarly, Celina's tweets also upset a few when she recalled how she transited through the airport last month on her way to Miami to be honoured by the Harvey Milk Foundation, a non-profit that supports LGBT youth.





No surprises here. She also received a backlash:





However Celina didn't let haters ruin her two minutes of fame and quickly responded saying...




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Hrithik and Celina weren't the only ones though; 70-year-old American singer and actor Cher was also slammed for using bomb and explosion emojis in her tweets.



And she was asked to "grow up":






But all the outrage made little difference:





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