The British tour operator TUI will repatriate all its customers staying in Sri Lanka, after the Easter attacks and the threat of new attacks, and cancel all trips sold to this destination. British tour operator TUI announces that it will repatriate all of its customers staying in Sri Lanka after the Easter attacks . He…
Six children are among the victims. The night raid took place near Kalmunai, a coastal town mostly populated by Muslims and located in the home province of Islamist Zahran Hashim. The latter is suspected of having organized the bloody Easter attacks. Sixteen people, including six children, were killed overnight from Friday to Saturday in an…
The government of Sri Lanka has decided to block access to social networks after the series of attacks that plagued the country on Sunday. A decision that worries digital rights defenders. The decision of the Sri Lankan authorities to block social networks after the series of deadly attacks on Sunday illustrates mistrust of these platforms…
The Sri Lankan authorities announced on Friday that they are looking for 140 people suspected of having links with the jihadist group Islamic State. On Friday, a shooting erupted in eastern Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan police are looking for 140 people suspected of links to the Islamic State (IS) , five days after the attacks…
The South Asian country, bereaved after a series of attacks on Sunday, declared a State of Emergency and a night curfew from Monday. The Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency Monday and tracked the leaders of suicide attacks that killed at least 290 dead on Easter Sunday , including dozens of foreigners , an…
Washington has recommended that American nationals “review” their travel plans in Sri Lanka, raising the level of alert in that country by one category. American diplomacy on Friday recommended its nationals to “review” their travel plans to Sri Lanka , raising the level of alert in this country by one category. “The US government has…
At least 207 people were killed and 450 injured this Sunday, April 21, in a series of explosions in luxury hotels and churches in Sri Lanka in the midst of Easter celebration, police said. Eight people were arrested but the wave of attacks had not been claimed at the end of the day. There are…
The jihadist attacks on Sunday April 22 in Sri Lanka left 253 dead. Radical leader Zahran Hashim, who appears in a video calling for the Islamic State, was actively wanted. He was killed in a suicide attack on a large hotel. Sri Lankan extremist Zahran Hashim, suspected key man in the jihadist Easter Sunday attacks…
Eight attacks, claimed by the Islamic State, killed more than 320 in Sri Lanka on Sunday in Catholic churches and luxury hotels. At the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo, a suicide bomber detonated his bomb in the dining room at breakfast time. A Vannetais was five stories higher in his hotel room. He tells. Johann,…
The attacks which left at least 290 dead in churches and hotels on Sunday April 21 were allegedly carried out by the small group NTJ (National Thowheeth Jama’ath), according to the government. Since the end of the civil war, friction between communities has remained very frequent in this predominantly Buddhist country. The civil war that…
The death toll of the attacks perpetrated on Sunday against churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, which the Islamic State (IS) group claimed, rose to 359 dead, a police spokesman said on Wednesday April 24, without more details. A spokesman for the Sri Lankan police announced this Wednesday, April 24 that the number of victims…
His name was Ramesh Raju. Before the terrorist attacks that plagued Sri Lanka at Easter, he volunteered to control the crowd. At the cost of his life, he prevented a suicide bomber from entering a church. A week after the attacks that hit several churches and hotels in Sri Lanka and left 253 dead and…
Attacks on Easter Sunday targeting hotel churches in Sri Lanka left 290 dead and 500 injured. Among the victims, the children of Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen at the head of a ready-to-wear group. Several dozen foreigners perished in the attacks, including a Frenchman. Three of the four children of Anders Holch Povlsen, considered Denmark’s…
Near Kalmunai, a town on the east coast of Sri Lanka, sixteen people, including six children, were killed overnight from Friday to Saturday in an assault by the country’s security forces on suspected members of the Islamic State group. The terrorist organization has confirmed to have been targeted. The Islamic State group has confirmed that…
The jihadist group Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks on Sunday, April 23, during the Easter weekend in Sri Lanka. The jihadist group Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for suicide attacks on churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Tuesday, a carnage that left more than 320 dead and 500 injured over Easter…
Sri Lanka recognized this Wednesday April 24 a “failure” in terms of state security, unable to prevent the jihadist attacks on Easter Sunday which killed around 360 people, despite prior information from the intelligence community . The management of the Sri Lankan authorities in the days leading up to the suicide attacks that killed 359…
Authorities in Sri Lanka have accused a local Islamist movement in the investigation into the series of attacks that hit churches and hotels on Sunday, leaving 290 dead and around 500 injured, according to a new death toll. In Colombo, it is astonishment and a time of mourning, as the investigation led to the arrest…
Interpol announced on Friday June 14 that it had arrested one of the main suspects in the jihadist attacks on luxury hotels and churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. The attacks killed 258 people. The international organization for police cooperation Interpol announced this Friday, June 14 the arrest and extradition of one of those…
Sri Lanka was hit by a series of eight explosions on Sunday April 21, in the midst of the celebration of Easter. Several churches and luxury hotels have been hit killing at least 290 people. No claim has yet been made, twenty-four people suspected of being in connection with the attack have been arrested. Return…
Sri Lanka’s finance minister announced on Friday April 26 that the Easter Sunday attacks could cause up to $ 1.5 billion in lost revenue to the island’s tourism sector. The Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka could cause up to $ 1.5 billion in lost revenue to its tourism sector this year, the island’s finance…
Bruised by a series of terrorist attacks at Easter, the Sri Lankan Catholic Church has given up its plan to allow the resumption of masses, this Sunday, May 5. The faithful will have to be patient. Churches remain closed and masses will not be able to resume, as planned, this Sunday, May 5, in Sri…
The public offices were canceled this Sunday but a vigil was however organized. Coordinated attacks on churches and luxury hotels on Sunday April 21 claimed the lives of 253 people. The churches of Sri Lanka remained closed this Sunday, April 28, the Christians mourning in private the victims of the bloody attacks of Easter ,…
This ban on wearing Islamic veils covering the face is taken by the Head of State in the name of “national security”. The measure comes into force on Monday. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena announced on Sunday April 28 the ban on Islamic veils covering the face in the name of “national security” , a…
Hemasiri Fernando, the most senior official in Sri Lanka’s defense ministry, resigned Thursday April 26 following the jihadist attacks that killed 359 people on Sunday. Sri Lanka’s senior defense ministry official resigned Thursday following jihadist attacks that killed 359 people on Sunday, a ministerial source told AFP. Hemasiri Fernando gave his letter of resignation to…
The Sri Lankan authorities have accused the local Islamist movement National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) after the series of attacks that hit churches and hotels on Sunday April 21, killing at least 290 and injuring around 500. At this stage of the investigation, the attacks have not been claimed. Before being blamed on Monday by the…
After the wave of attacks that hit the country on Easter Sunday and claimed 253 lives, Sri Lanka is seeing bookings and tourists fleeing the country. Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera said he expects a 30% drop in arrivals this year, a shortfall of around $ 1.5 billion. The dust had not settled on hotels and…