Attacks in Sri Lanka. 87 bomb detonators found in Colombo bus station

The Sri Lankan police discovered, this Monday, April 22, 87 detonators in a station of Colombo, the economic and political capital of the country. On Sunday, a wave of attacks left more than 290 dead and 500 injured in the country.

Sri Lanka police on Monday discovered 87 detonators in a bus station in the capital Colombo, the day after a wave of suicide bombings that have left more than 290 dead in the country . “87 detonators were discovered in the private Bastian Mawatha bus station in Pettah,” a district of the Sri Lankan capital located halfway between hotels and the church struck by explosions on Sunday, the forces said. order in a press release. “Police found 12 of them strewn on the ground and later searched a landfill where 75 more detonators were found,” they said. “No suspect has been arrested. Pettah police are continuing their investigation ”, add text.

Emergency state

At the same time, still in the capital, an explosion occurred on Monday during a bomb clearance operation in a van stopped near a church hit by the attacks. It was not immediately clear whether this explosion caused any casualties and to what extent it was or was not controlled by demining teams.

Sri Lanka declared on Monday the entry into force of the state of emergency from midnight in the name of “public security” and declared a day of national mourning on Tuesday. On Sunday, in a few hours, bombs sowed death and desolation in luxury hotels and churches celebrating Easter Mass in several places on the South Asian island, which had not seen such an outburst of violence since the end of the civil war ten years ago. Authorities have blamed the wave of coordinated attacks on local Islamist group National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ), which has not yet claimed responsibility, however.

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