Sri Lanka: How 9 suicide bombers carried out Easter attack on churches
“The leader of a local extremist group that carried out the bombings was one of the suicide bombers,’’ the minister told a press conference.
He said massive hunts were continuing to nab more suspects and vowed to bring the situation under control in the coming few days.“But within the next few days, we will have the situation under control,’’ Wijewardene said. According to the minister, attackers belonged to a group which had broken away from another group called the National Tawheed Jamaat, and this group had caused minor violence by vandalising Buddhist statues and attacking temples, in the recent past.
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