Saturday, April 27, 2019

UPDATE: Sri Lanka PM: terrorists may have expected second wave of bombings

Wickremesinghe says investigators have identified about 140 supporters and sympathisers of bombers

Sri Lanka’s prime minister has said authorities are investigating the possibility that the terrorist cell responsible for the Easter Sunday attacks may have expected a second wave of people to come forward to become suicide bombers, as more violence hit the country amid the police hunt for suspects.

Ranil Wickremesinghe told the Guardian that investigators were trying to understand why Islamic State-linked terrorist cell that killed at least 253 people had such a large quantity of explosives they were yet to use, some of which had been dumped in safe houses across the country.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2V0p7Ie

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