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 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…
Sri Lanka and several other countries are in the sights of radical Islam and movements affiliated with the jihadist international. These extremist organizations seek to spread by taking advantage of local tensions and the presence of militant Islamist groups, both in Asia and Africa. Claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, the Colombo (Sri Lanka)…
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 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…
On Sunday, a series of attacks on Sri Lankan soil left several hundred dead and injured. Dilip Fernando, a Sri Lankan Catholic recounts how, for lack of space, his life was saved that day. His family, who remained outside the church, are convinced of having crossed paths with the suicide bomber, a young man who…
The leader of the jihadist attacks on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka succeeded in training young men in his wake to become suicide bombers by radicalizing them via the internet, say investigators and Muslim officials. At least 257 people died on Sunday April 21 when a series of suicide bombings targeted luxury hotels and Christian…
In Sri Lanka, churches will remain closed “until further notice” after suicide bombings in churches and hotels on Easter Sunday that left 359 dead. All the Catholic churches in Sri Lanka will remain closed and no Mass will be celebrated until the “improvement of the security situation” after the Passover bombing s , who made…
The death toll of the attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Sunday 21, which the Islamic State (IS) group claimed, has been lowered to 253 dead The Sri Lankan authorities sharply revised downwards on Thursday April 25 the toll of the Easter attacks : 253 people perished and not 359 as previously…
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…
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…
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…
The Inspector General in charge of the Sri Lankan police refuses to resign, despite the appointment of his deputy to his post by the country’s president. This Monday, he still occupied his official residence. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday appointed a new police chief even though his predecessor, dismissed following the jihadist attacks…
The Sri Lankan government retracted its Sunday statements, citing a nationality error. The Sri Lankan government returned this Tuesday to its announcement the day before of a Frenchman killed in the suicide attacks on Easter Sunday. “The French national who was marked as killed in the ministry’s press release of April 22 is a case…
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…