Sri Lanka's government blames domestic Islamist group for bombings
by Shashank Bengali and Munza Mushtaq, Los Angeles Times
Apr 22, 2019
3 minutes
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - As Sri Lanka began to hold funerals for victims of the Easter Sunday bombings, among the deadliest terrorist attacks of the last decade, authorities on Monday named a domestic Islamist extremist group as perpetrator of the six coordinated suicide bombings at churches and hotels.
Government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said a group called National Thowheeth Jamaath - whose members had previously been arrested for defacing Buddhist statues - was behind a total of eight
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