Islamic State group claims Sri Lanka suicide bombings
An image grab taken from a press release issued by Islamic State, allegedly shows eight men it said carried out a string of deadly suicide bomb blasts in Sri Lanka. The man in the centre is believed to be Zahran Hashmi, identified by the Sri Lankan police as the leader of the Islamist National Thowheeth Jama’th group, which Colombo has blamed for the attacks. – AFP pic, April 24, 2019
THE Islamic State group today claimed responsibility for a devastating series of suicide attacks against churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that killed more than 320 people. The claim, accompanied by a photo and video of the men the group said had unleashed the carnage, emerged more than two days after the near-simultaneous blasts ripped through three high-end hotels popular with foreigners and three churches packed with Christians celebrating Easter.
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