Sri Lankan Naval soldiers stand outside damaged St. Anthony's Church, in Colombo, Saturday, April 27, 2019. Sri Lankan security forces have found 15 bodies, including six children, after militants linked to the Easter bombings set off explosives during a raid on a house in the country's east.
In a rare show of unity, President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa attended the Mass. Their political rivalry and government dysfunction are blamed for a failure act upon near-specific information received from foreign intelligence agencies that preceded the bombings that targeted three churches and three luxury hotels.The U.S. Embassy in Colombo has warned against attending any service at a place of worship this weekend.
In a statement carried by the extremists’ Aamaq news agency, IS identified the bombers by their noms du guerre as Abu Hammad, Abu Sufyan and Abu al-Qa’qa. It said they opened fire with automatic weapons and “after exhausting their ammunition, detonated ... their explosive belts.” A police investigator, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity as he wasn’t authorized to publicly comment, said the mix of acids worsened the wounds suffered by those who didn’t immediately die in the blast.
The Sri Lankan navy controls the sale of the mining explosives and investigators already had begun tracing the serial numbers off of the plastic sticks, he said. A notebook contained bombmaking instructions that had apparently been explained to the writer.
*fears of attack by Islamic Terror group.
Meanwhi masjids were running full on friday in contravention of the recommendations by authorities.
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This is not Islam.... Islam doesn't teach us to kill our neighbors... They are not Muslims... Why would kill the innocent just like that and you call yourself a human.. An animal is far better than you... Those arrested should be be killed. Period.!
They can’t kill all of us, so there will always be somebody to see them as the losers they are.
What a shame!!! A bunch of barbaric terrorists have caused so much death, pain and horror in that country. May those who have perished in that senseless killings rest in peace.
Memory of the movie Silence.
A collection of insane people. Proud to kill innocent people. Crazy
If someone farts on the moon, ISIS will claim it as being one of their followers.
'Militant.' Shame on you.
Absurd
So terrorists continue to win by terrorizing people into changing their routines.
muslims will do that
Isis wearing Yellow Vests....
Typical ISIS only attack the children, women and innocents !
Us had children and spouses come home of govt workers ad recommended same of others. Civil unrest. Hope peace
I thought trump said they were defeated...
So much for Islam being the religion of peace...