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Sri Lanka names local Islamist group National Thowheed Jama’ath behind Easter blasts; govt to investigate role of 'foreign links'
Fp Staff • 6 years agoThe Sri Lankan government accepted on Monday — after speculations of foreign involvement — that all the attackers were local and part of Jamath, a Sri Lankan organisation. Police have so far arrested 24 people in the wake of the attacks. However, no detail about them has been divulged. But according to AFP, authorities have said they will look into whether the attackers had any "overseas links" or "international support".
Sri Lanka government declares State of Emergency from midnight on Monday in wake of serial blasts that killed 290 people
• 6 years agoThe Sri Lanka government has declared Tuesday as a national day of mourning. It also believes a local Islamist extremist group called the National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ) was behind the suicide bomb attacks.
Sri Lanka blasts: Four JDS workers touring Colombo killed, confirms HD Kumaraswamy; three others missing
Fp Staff • 6 years agoAt least 290 people, including three Danes, a Japanese citizen, two Chinese nationals, and the five Indians were killed in the Sri Lanka blasts in the worst violence to hit the island nation since the civil war that ended a decade ago.
Sri Lanka blasts: World media says intel failure, rising extremism amid minority persecution to blame
Fp Staff • 6 years agoThe Lankan tragedy, thus, has put the world in deep thought about the pattern of such attacks one after the other and made countries introspect on where they are going wrong in terms of treatment of their religious minorities and handling of extremist terrorism.
MEA confirms six Indians dead in Sri Lanka blasts; Sushma Swaraj identifies two more bodies after Easter Sunday attacks
• 6 years agoSix Indians were killed in a string of eight powerful blasts in Sri Lanka, which struck three churches and luxury hotels frequented by foreigners, on Easter Sunday.
Toll in Sri Lanka blasts rises to 290; authorities lift curfew despite fear of renewed communal violence
• 6 years agoAuthorities lifted a curfew in the Sri Lanka on Monday, a day after 290 people were killed and about 500 wounded by a string of bomb blasts that tore through churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday.
Sri Lanka blasts: Easter bombings rattle decade-long peace in island nation, expose risk to Christian miniority amid religious conflict
• 6 years agoEthnic and religious violence has plagued Sri Lanka for decades, with a 37-year conflict with Tamil rebels that claimed 100,000 lives and an upswing in recent years in clashes between the Buddhist majority and Muslims.
Easter Sunday blasts in Sri Lanka: Authorities ignored intelligence memo that warned of attacks; alert was circulated day before explosions
• 6 years agoA memo that warned of a potential attack was circulated a day before the deadly blasts in Sri Lanka. The memo dated 11 April was signed by Sri Lanka's deputy inspector general of police.
Sri Lanka blasts: Timing of 'barbaric' explosions indicate coordinated attack; president, PM urge public to not believe 'false news'
Skandha Gunasekara And Madushka Balasuriya • 6 years agoOn Sunday, eight blasts in Sri Lanka, including at three hotels in Colombo and three packed Catholic churches, killed 215 people and injured scores more.
World leaders react to Sri Lanka blasts: Narendra Modi calls attacks 'cold-blooded', Donald Trump agrees to help
• 6 years agoReligious and world leaders have condemned a series of blasts in Sri Lanka that killed more than 200 people on Sunday, including dozens of foreigners with British, Dutch and American citizens believed to be among them. Here is a summary of the reactions.