LankaWeb – Top Muslim leader arrested over 2019 Easter attacks in Sri Lanka

Posted on April 25th, 2021
Courtesy Chritian News
Sri Lankan police have arrested a prominent Muslim politician and his brother over suspected connections to the Easter Sunday suicide bombings in 2019 that killed 269 people.
Rishad Bathiudeen, a former cabinet minister who currently leads an opposition party in Sri Lanka’s parliament, was arrested in the capital Colombo along with his brother, Reyaj Bathiudeen, for aiding and abetting the suicide bombers who committed the Easter Sunday carnage”, police said.
A spokesman added that the brothers have not yet been officially charged.
Two local Muslim groups who had pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State group have been blamed for the six near-simultaneous blasts at two Roman Catholic churches, a Protestant church and three tourist hotels.

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