COLOMBO: The Islamic State group on Tuesday said it was behind a devastating string of suicide attacks against churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that k...
A priest administrates a burial ritual for a bomb blast victim in a cemetery in Colombo on April 23, 2019, two days after a series of bomb attacks targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. — AFP: The Islamic State group on Tuesday said it was behind a devastating string of suicide attacks against churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that killed more than 320 people on Easter Sunday.
The Sri Lankan government had already pointed the figure at a little-known local Islamic extremist group called National Thowheeth Jama’ath , but said it was investigating whether they had international support. Three minutes of silence were marked nationwide from 8.30am , the time the first suicide bomber struck on Sunday, unleashing carnage.
More than a thousand people gathered Tuesday at St Sebastian’s Church in Negombo, north of the capital, which was among those devastated in the blasts, to pay tribute to the dead. “It’s beyond words,“ said Father Suranga Warnakulasuriya, who had come from another parish to help conduct funerals.The attacks were the worst ever against the country’s small Christian minority, who make up just 7% of the 21 million population.Officials are investigating why more precautions were not taken after an April 11 warning from Sri Lanka’s police that a “foreign intelligence agency” had reported the NTJ planned suicide attacks on churches.
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