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On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital, Colombo, were targeted in a series of coordinated ISIS -related terrorist suicide bombings. Later that day, two smaller explosions occurred at a housing complex in Dematagoda and a guest house in Dehiwala.
The Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the Easter Attacks is a Presidential Commission of Inquiry in to the deadly Easter bomb attacks appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena on 21 April 2019 tasked with investigating the causes and background for the bombings. The commission is headed by Vijith Malalgoda, Puisne Justice of the Supreme ...
13−26 September − 2019 Sri Lanka floods: At least two persons are reported dead and 282 houses are completely damaged due to floods in Colombo, Galle and Matara. [31] [32] 16 September − Sri Lanka and South Asia's tallest tower, the Lotus Tower, is declared open following a grand opening ceremony. [33]
Easter Sunday bomb blasts at three Sri Lankan churches and three luxury hotels killed hundreds of people and wounded more than 400, officials say. Sri Lanka bomb attacks kill over 200 people Skip ...
Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bomb attacks were retaliation for a recent attack on mosques in New Zealand, a Sri Lankan official said on Tuesday, adding that two domestic Islamist groups were believed ...
On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, the church was one in a series of targets of a string of bomb blasts across Sri Lanka. Media reported at least 93 people killed at the church, [3] UNICEF reported that 27 children died and 10 children were injured. [4]
National Thowheeth Jama'ath. National Thowheeth Jama'ath ( NTJ; Arabic: جماعة التوحيد الوطنية; Jamā‘at at-Tawḥīd al-Waṭanīyah, "National Monotheism Organisation") is a Sri Lankan Islamist jihadist militant group implicated in the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings. [4] [5] It is believed to have ties to the Islamic State ...
The bombs set off by Islamist militants on Easter Sunday 2019 caused widespread panic fueled by fake news and misinformation about the security situation, specifically targeting the Muslim minority in Sri Lanka. The government reacted by blocking access to social media channels [5] which they claimed were being used by mobs to coordinate ...