Islamic state claims responsibility for Sri Lanka bombings
Islamic state has claimed responsibility for coordinated bombings in Sri Lanka which killed 321 people and injured about 500 others, the group’s AMAQ news agency said on Tuesday.
The group did not give evidence for its claim.
In the meantime, Sri Lanka’s state minister of defense said the Easter attack on churches, hotels and other sites was “carried out in retaliation” for the shooting massacre at two New Zealand mosques last month.
Ruwan Wijewardene, told Parliament the government possessed information that the series of bombings in and outside of Colombo that killed more than 300 people was carried out “by an Islamic fundamentalist group” in response to the Christchurch attacks.
He did not provide evidence or explain the source of the information.
The six near-simultaneous attacks on three churches and three luxury hotels and three related blasts later Sunday was Sri Lanka’s deadliest violence in a decade.
Wijewardene said the death toll from the attack now stood at 321 people, with 500 wounded.
(Reuters)
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Is there is any country in the world that Muslims don’t cause trouble.
Six suicide bombers (some say women were among them) deployed. If ISIS retaliated for NZ massacre, why selected Sri Lanka? Is that because SL was a soft target? Why attacked the hotels? They want to cripple Sri Lanka’s tourism industry? One other thing; during Theldheniya incident around 200 Sinhalese were arrested. In this incident so far, only 24 arrested!