A suspected suicide bomber carries a backpack on a street in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on April 21 2019 in this still image taken from a CCTV handout footage. Picture: REUTERS TVIslamist suicide bombings that killed more than 300 people in Sri Lanka at the weekend were carried out in revenge for the March attacks on two mosques in New Zealand, the government said on Tuesday, citing an initial police probe.
Fifty people were shot dead on March 15 at two mosques in the New Zealand city by a white nationalist. On Tuesday, grieving Sri Lankans began to bury their dead and the country was observing a day of national mourning. Hours earlier, the government imposed a state of emergency giving police and the military special powers including the ability to arrest suspects without a court order.More than a thousand people gathered Tuesday at St Sebastian's Church in Negombo, north of the capital, which was among those hit in the blasts, to pay tribute to the dead.
"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 seven percent of the 21 million population. Officials are investigating why more precautions were not taken after an April 11 warning from Sri Lanka's police that a"foreign intelligence agency" had reported the NTJ planned suicide attacks on churches.
Why then did they hit hotels and not just religious places of worship - doesn’t make sense at all..
Nonsense! Sri Lanka has no control over New Zealand's interior.
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