Courtesy Adaderana Two main suspects wanted in connection with the Easter Day attack have been arrested at Nawalapitya area, stated the Police. The suspects have been identified as Mohamed Saadik Abdul Haq and Mohamed Saahid Abdul Haq, according to the Police. The Special Task Force (STF) and Sri Lanka Army officials made the arrest on […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 27 (Reuters): The wife and daughter of Mohamad Zahran Hashim, the suicide bomber cum mastermind of the serial bombings in Colombo and two other cities on April 21, were injured in the explosion in the Islamic State safe house at Sainthamarudu in Eastern Sri Lanka on Friday night. The shootout at […]

By P.K.Balachandran/newsin.asia Colombo, April 25: Prof. Rohan Gunaratna, a leading Sri Lankan expert on terrorism, including West Asian terrorism, says that it is misleading to say that the National Tawheed Jamaat (NTJ) carried out the multiple suicide attacks on targets in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. The truth is that they were Sri Lankans affiliated […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, April 28 (newsin.asia): It was the Jamathei Millathu Ibraheem (JMI), which was the actual perpetrator of the Easter Sunday carnage in Colombo and two other Lankan towns, Dr.Rohan Gunaratna, an expert on Islamic terrorism, says. The Jamathei Millathu Ibraheem and the National Tawheed Jamaat are to be banned, and steps are […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 28 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena will on Monday impose a ban on Muslim women wearing the face veil (the niqab/burqa) to ensure public safety, the Presidential Media Division said here on Sunday. Though the measure is unlikely to meet any resistance from the Muslims, given the security situation, there […]

By Alasdair Pal and A. Ananthalakshmi Courtesy The Sydney Morning Herald Colombo/Kattankudy: Sri Lankan police have raided the headquarters of a hardline Islamist group founded by the suspected ringleader behind the Easter suicide bombings of churches and hotels. It came as Sunday mass was cancelled across the island because of fears of further attacks. Armed police […]

Courtesy Sputnik MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Sri Lankan police have detained a man with two swords as an elder brother of the suicide attacker responsible for the bombing in the five-star Shangri-La hotel last Sunday, local media reported, citing police. The man identified as Mohamed Ibrahim Ifthikar has been arrested at Dematagoda area in a suburb outside Colombo, Ada Derana […]

Courtesy Telegraph The father and two brothers of the mastermind behind the Easter Sunday terror attack that killed 253 people in Sri Lanka promise more destruction would follow in a chilling video just before they killed themselves on Friday. The trio had blown themselves up just as police launched a raid on their house in […]

NIA arrests 1, asks 2 others to report at its office today.  A relative of a victim of Easter Sunday bomb blasts pays tribute at the burial site after a televised Sunday mass in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on Sunday (Image: AP) Kozhikode: NIA sleuths raided homes of three people, one in Kollengode in Palakkad district and […]

Dr.Reffai Sri Lankan Association of Muslim Women & Girls The bombs went off,the  country was shocked, deaths, injured, search for the relatives……. while these were going on with spot lights on them, two groups who silently, without seeking any publicity were doing their duty.  One is the health sector employees from doctors down to labourers. They […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයයි All Ceylon Railway Employees’ General Union  රජයේ භාණ්ඩාගාරයට ලැබිය යුතු මුදල් හා ජනතාව සතු මුදල් පුද්ගලික පරිහරණයට යොදගන්නා වංචාකාරී දූෂිත පුද්ගලයෙකු ආරක්‍ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම් බවට පත්කිරීම නිසා ජාතික ආරක්‍ෂාවට ප‍්‍රබල ප‍්‍රහාරයක් එල්ල වී ඇත. පසුගිය පාස්කු ඉරිදා එනම් අප්‍රේල් 21 දින කතෝලික පල්ලි කීපයකට හා ප‍්‍රධාන පෙලේ හෝටල් කීපයකට මෙන්ම තවත් ස්ථාන කීපයකටම […]

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BY S VENKAT NARAYAN, Courtesy The Island NEW DELHI, April 27: The three intelligence alerts India had sent to Sri Lanka before the devastating serial bombings that killed over 250 people in the island on Easter Sunday had specific details – names of attackers, locations and the plot being hatched. In the shadowy world of […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 27 (newsin.asia): Muslim neighbours and the cleric in charge of the local mosque had tipped off the Security Forces about the existence of a safe house taken on rent by the followers of the Islamic State in the Muslim-majority town of Sainthamarudu in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province, locals said. […]

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BY AMAL JAYASINGHE Courtesy The Island (AFP) Fifteen people including six children died in a battle between Sri Lankan security forces and suicide bombers who blew themselves up in the latest fallout from the Easter attacks, police said Saturday. Three men set off explosives that killed themselves, three women and six children inside what was […]

By Udaya P Gammanpila Courtesy Ceylon Today Profile pictures have been changed to National flags and white flags, Pray for Sri Lanka” posts have gone viral,  people are lining up to donate blood,  everybody is weeping for the Easter Sunday terrorist attack victims in unison; shedding petty racial, religious and political differences.   All of […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Three suspects were taken into Sri Lanka Navy custody with one kilogram of C-4 explosives and a three-wheeler near the Wellawatte railway station today, Navy Spokesman Isuru Suriyabandar said. He told Daily Mirror that the suspects were handed over to the Army and they would handover them to the […]

Hafeel Farisz Courtesy The Daily Mirror Three suspects allegedly radical Islamist extremists and two weapons of the two Policemen killed at a checkpoint in Vavunathiwu on November 29, 2018 were recovered by officers of the Criminal Investigations Department today. Sources confirmed that the three suspects were arrested in Kalmunai and the weapons were recovered in the […]

Courtesy Adaderana UPDATE: (3.24 p.m.) – UNP Colombo Municipal Councillor Noordeen Mohamed Thajudeen, who was arrested over the discovery of 46 sword in Slave Island, has been handed over to the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD), according to the Police Spokesman.  Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) member, Noordeen Mohamed Thajudeen, has been arrested in connection with the 46 […]

Courtesy Adaderana A person has been arrested along with 51 sticks of water-gel explosives, 215 detonators and a motorcycle during a search operation at Erakkandi, Trincomalee. The suspect was arrested with the explosives by Sri Lanka Navy personnel, who were carrying out a search in the area

Courtesy Adaderana Police have recovered 49 knives from the premises of a mosque in the Maskeliya area during a search operation carried out this morning. The police officers who engaged in a search operation of the mosque premises had discovered 49 knives and 3 small axes inside a storage room. The person in charge of […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Deputy Mayor of Negombo, Mohamed Ansar, has been arrested for the pssesion of a sword, a dagger and 37 mobile phone batteries, Police said. The arrest was reportedly made during a search operations by police officers.

Courtesy Adaderana All day people were coming in and out of the house with the pale-pink walls, and neighbours were becoming suspicious. An elder in the village of the eastern Sri Lankan city of Kalmunai was summoned to confront the men who had rented the property a few weeks before. The discussion soon became tense, […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena has taken steps to ban two local Islamist groups in Sri Lanka suspected of carrying out the attacks on churches and hotels on Sunday. In terms of powers vested in him as the President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka under Emergency Regulations No. 01 of 2019, the […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 27 (Reuters): The wife and daughter of Mohamad Zahran Hashim, the suicide bomber cum mastermind of the serial bombings in Colombo and two other cities on April 21, were injured in the explosion in the Islamic State safe house at Sainthamarudu in Eastern Sri Lanka on Friday night. The shootout at […]

Written by Arun Janardhanan |Batticaloa Sixteen members of the family, including seven children and Zahran’s parents, had gone missing three days before the Easter Sunday blasts. A day after 15 individuals, including six children, were reported killed in suicide blasts at a suspected Islamist safe house in the Sri Lankan town of Kalmunai, a plainclothes military intelligence […]

Courtesy Nation (Pakistan) PDP chief says Easter bombings aim at pitching people of different religions against one another KARACHI    –   Pasban Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman Altaf Shakoor has said that India is the enemy of both Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and recent terrorism in Sri Lanka seems an international conspiracy for which fingers are being […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena says he would not excuse himself from the lapse on the part of intelligence information sharing and the government should bear the responsibility for failing to prevent the attacks on Easter Sunday. The President stated this addressing the Heads of media institutes today (26). Stating that a major search operation […]

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