A man cries as he prays in the street near St Anthony's Shrine one week on from the attacks that killed over 250 people, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 28 2019. Picture: CARL COURT/GETTY IMAGESSri Lanka’s churches remained shut on Sunday forcing Christians to say prayers of grief in private over the Easter suicide attacks that the country’s Roman Catholic leader called “an insult to humanity”.
“Today during this mass we are paying attention to last Sunday’s tragedy and we try to understand it,” the cardinal said at his official residence, where President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe were among the small congregation. Thousands of Sri Lankan troops remained on the streets, guarding churches and mosques for the symbolic day.
The latest two, Mohamed Saadik Abdul Haq and Mohamed Saahid Abdul Haq, were on a list of six “most wanted” radicals issued on Thursday. They were wanted for the December 26 desecration of Buddha statues at the central town of Mawanella, the act that first brought to prominence the National Thowheeth Jama’ath group, which has been blamed for the Easter bombings.
Police said the widow of Hashim and their child were wounded in the Kalmunai raid. “The woman and her four-year-old daughter are now being treated at a government hospital,” police spokesperson Ruwan Gunasekera said. Footage shown on state television showed explosives, a generator, a drone and a large quantity of batteries inside the converted studio. An IS flag and uniforms were also found, police said.
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