Sri Lankan priests look at the debris of a car after it explodes when police tried to defuse a bomb near St. Anthony's Shrine in Colombo on April 22, 2019, a day after the series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. — AFP: Islamist suicide bombings that killed more than 300 people in Sri Lanka at the weekend were carried out in revenge for last month’s attacks on two mosques in New Zealand, the government said Tuesday, citing an initial police probe.
Wijewardene said the group behind the Sri Lanka bombings was the little-known National Thowheeth Jama’ath , an extremist Islamist group previously blamed for defacing Buddhist statues. Flags were lowered to half mast on government buildings, and liquor shops were ordered closed for the day. “It’s beyond words,“ said Father Suranga Warnakulasuriya, who had come from another parish to help conduct funerals.The attacks were the worst ever against the country’s small Christian minority, who make up just 7% of the 21 million population.
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