Sri Lanka Easter bombings were carried out by a “radical Islam group” in retaliation for Christchurch mosque attacks, defense minister says
South Korea joined the US, Australia and China today in cautioning its citizens about travel to Sri Lanka.
Police officers and military personnel guard St Anthony's Shrine on April 21, 2019 in Colombo, Sri Lanka following a coordinated series of attacks on Easter Sunday rocked churches and luxury hotels in the Indian Ocean nation.)Global headlines about the attacks will have likely delighted the perpetrators, said Anne Speckhard, director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism, who also noted that the coordinated explosions fit the"ISIS and Al Qaeda playbook.
He said that new security measures could include developing"our own security system"—for example,"we can ask people not to bring their purses to church.""At this time we are speechless. We never had any communal violence," another church official, Father Cyril Gamini Fernando, told CNN.
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