At least 15 dead in Sri Lanka after shootout with suspected militants

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Fifteen dead in Sri Lanka after shootout with suspected Islamist militants

Soldiers evacuate an injured child after they raid what believed to be an Islamist safe house in the eastern town of Kalmunai on April 27, 2019. Fifteen people, including six children, died during a raid by Sri Lankan security forces as three cornered suicide bombers blew themselves up and others were shot dead, police said on April 27.

He said the militants were suspected members of the domestic Islamist group National Towheed Jama'at , which has been blamed for last Sunday's attacks. Police have detained at least 76 people, including foreigners from Syria and Egypt, in their investigations so far. Twenty were arrested in the past 24 hours alone, they said.

Fears of retaliatory sectarian violence have already caused Muslim communities to flee their homes amid bomb scares, lockdowns and security sweeps. Authorities have so far focused their investigations on international links to two domestic groups they believe carried out the attacks, NTJ and Jammiyathul Millathu Ibrahim.

 

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Islam means 'peace' your suspicions are incorrect. They are militants.

So sorry for that suthlessness

So horrible

So killing innocent children is going to send you to the holly land is it?!

Religion of peace

So more murder in the name of religion? Great...

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