Father, two brothers of suspected Sri Lanka bombings mastermind killed in gun battle

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Father, two brothers of suspected Sri Lanka bombings mastermind killed in gun battle.

KALMUNAI/COLOMBO - The father and two brothers of the suspected mastermind of Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings were killed when security forces stormed their safe house on the east coast two days ago, police and a relative said on Sunday.

Two people who were inside the house, a woman and a seven-year-old girl believed to be relatives of the men, survived, he said, while a woman was killed in crossfire on a nearby street. Authorities have detained more than 100 people, including foreigners from Syria and Egypt since the April 21 bombings.

On Sunday, when Reuters visited the house, police were sifting through the wreckage, taking fingerprints and video footage. After evening prayers on Friday, a group of men from the local Hijra Mosque came to the house to question the occupants. "People were coming and going but we didn’t know their names," said Juneedha Hasanar, who runs a shop at the bottom of the street, yards from the house. “Now we are afraid.”

 

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