Sri Lanka's Catholic churches suspend services until security improves after deadly Easter bombings – senior priest
Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena says the country's security forces will be completely reorganised"within a week."
More than 100 people have now been arrested in the country in connection with Easter Sunday blasts, Wijewardene said.The United States had no prior knowledge of the Easter Sunday suicide bombing attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, but now believes there is ongoing terrorism plotting in the country, Washington's ambassador to Colombo said on Wednesday."We believe there are ongoing terrorist plots. Terrorists can strike without warning.
Sri Lanka's prime minister warned there are more explosives and militants "out there" after Easter suicide bombings that killed over 320 people. He said a planned attack at a fourth hotel failed and that the leader of a local militant group blamed for the assault may have led the attacks and been killed.
The FBI is assisting Sri Lankan authorities with their investigation of the bomb attacks, a spokeswoman for the US law enforcement agency said on Tuesday.earlier had reported that the FBI had offered expertise to test evidence and that analysts were scouring databases for information regarding the attacks.
"It was done by National Thowheeth Jama’ath along with JMI," he said, referring to another local group, Jammiyathul Millathu Ibrahim. Police issued orders that anyone parking a car on the street and leaving it unattended must put a note with their phone number on the windscreen.Ignored warning raises questions
Much remained unclear about how the little-known group called carried out six large near-simultaneous suicide bombings striking churches and hotels. Sri Lankan authorities also planned to brief foreign diplomats and receive assistance from the FBI and other foreign intelligence-gathering agencies after officials disclosed Monday that warnings had been received weeks ago of the possibility of an attack by a small but radical group blamed for the bloodshed.Sri Lankans across the island nation began observing three minutes of silence early on Tuesday morning to pay tribute to the victims.
These power were given to the military under a state of emergency that came into effect at 1830GMT on Monday. Turkey, Japan, the UK, Denmark, India, the Netherlands, China, Australia and Portugal are the countries that have confirmed casualties of their citizen. It citied intelligence agencies' reports that "international groups" were involved with the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka. The statement did not provide more details about the groups.
It was not clear if the president, Sirisena, was aware of the report but the top security organisation, the Security Council, reports to him, while the prime minister was no longer invited to council meetings because of the rift, Senaratne said.Attacks carried out by seven suicide bombers
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