Sri Lanka reveals identities of suicide bombers behind Easter massacres
By Joanna Slater and Joanna Slater Foreign correspondent covering South Asia Email Bio Follow Amantha Perera April 24 at 6:06 AM BREAKING: President Maithripala Sirisena has asked for the resignations of the country’s police chief and defense secretary as furor grows over the government’s handling of advance intelligence related to the bombings.
Ruwan Wijewardene, the state minister for defense, told reporters that the bombers used two safe houses in Colombo and Negombo. They came from middle-class and upper-class backgrounds, he said, and some were “quite well-educated people.” One of them had studied in Britain and Australia. Wijewardene said the bombers had split from the National Thowheed Jamaath, an obscure Islamist extremist group based in the eastern part of the country. The leader of the splinter group carried out the suicide attack on Colombo’s Shangri-La hotel, he said.
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