13 arrested in connection with Sri Lanka blasts: Police

13 arrested in connection with Sri Lanka blasts: Police

FPJ BureauUpdated: Wednesday, May 29, 2019, 12:02 AM IST
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A general view of the Kingsbury Hotel targeted earlier in the day by a blast in Colombo on April 21, 2019. - A series of eight devastating bomb blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka on April 21, killing at least 207 people, including dozens of foreigners. (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA / AFP) |

Colombo: Sri Lankan police have arrested 13 men in connection with bomb blasts on churches and hotels that killed more than 200 people, officials said Monday. Authorities have not made public details on those held after Sunday’s attacks. But a police source told AFP the 13 were detained at two locations in and around Colombo.

The source said the 13 men are from the same radical group. At least two of the eight attacks were carried out by suicide bombers, according to police and other sources, and three police were killed when another suicide bomber detonated explosives during a raid on a house where suspects were.

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