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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Photo: AFP
Sri Lanka did not arrest citizens who joined Islamic State because it is ‘not an offence’ to join foreign terrorist groups, PM says
- Attacks on Easter Sunday killed 253 people – revised down from more than 350. Islamic State has claimed responsibility
- Many countries amended their relevant anti-terrorism legislation after 2014, the year that Islamic State declared a caliphate
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Sri Lanka bombings
Published: 10:43am, 26 Apr, 2019
Updated: 11:30am, 26 Apr, 2019
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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Photo: AFP
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Mourners react during a mass burial of victims, two days after a string of suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels across the island on Easter Sunday, in Colombo, Sri Lanka April 23, 2019. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte
Sri Lanka bombings: investigators probe global terror links as IS claims responsibility and death toll climbs to 321
- President Maithripala Sirisena said intelligence agencies had reported that ‘international organisations [were] behind these acts of local terrorists’
- State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene said the bombings could have been retaliation for the mosque shootings in New Zealand last month
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Mourners react during a mass burial of victims, two days after a string of suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels across the island on Easter Sunday, in Colombo, Sri Lanka April 23, 2019. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte
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