15 dead, including 6 children, as Sri Lanka forces raid Islamist hideout
A Sri Lanka soldier standing guard outside a mosque in Colombo, Sri Lanka yesterday. 15 people including 6 children have been killed when security forces stormed a suspected Islamist hideout. – EPA pic, April 27, 2019.
FIFTEEN people, including six children, died during a raid by Sri Lankan security forces as three cornered suicide bombers blew themselves up and others were shot dead, police said today. The three men set off explosives killing three women and six children inside what was believed to an Islamist safe house near the eastern town of Kalmunai on Friday night, police said.
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