Send A top Sri Lankan minister said on Tuesday that a radical cleric, who is now under detention, has been identified as the mastermind of the deadly Easter Sunday attacks in 2019 that killed 270 people, including 11 Indians.
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Colombo:
Nine suicide bombers, belonging to local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) linked to ISIS, carried out coordinated blasts that tore through three churches and as many luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on the Easter Sunday in 2019. Naufer Moulavi was the mastermind (of the Easter bombings), Minister of Public Security Sarath Weerasekera told reporters here.
Weerasekera said that the cleric was assisted by another person identified as Hajjul Akbar.
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