Details begin to emerge of suspects in Sri Lanka bombings
Security forces stand guard at St. Antony shrine, days after a string of suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 24, 2019.Details began to emerge in Sri Lanka on Wednesday of a band of nine, well-educated Islamist suicide bombers, including a woman, from well-to-do families who slaughtered 359 people in Easter Sunday bomb attacks.
The one man in the video with his face uncovered was Mohamed Zahran, a Sri Lankan preacher known for militant views. Two of the bombers were brothers, sons of a wealthy spice trader and pillar of the business community, a source close to the family said. Sri Lanka’s 22 million people include minority Christians, Muslims and Hindus. Until now, Christians had largely managed to avoid the worst of the island’s conflict and communal tensions.
It has also exposed a significant Sri Lankan intelligence failure, with warnings of strikes not acted on and feuds at the highest levels of government. He said information about possible attacks was received from Indian intelligence on April 4 and a Security Council meeting was chaired by President Maithripala Sirisena three days later, but it was not shared more widely.
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