On Tuesday, the Islamic State terror group said it had carried out the attacks, and released video of men it says were the bombers, pledging allegiance to the group.
The Interpol on Monday said it is ready to offer full support to the Sri Lankan authorities in investigating the country s deadliest terror attack that killed 290 people in a series of eight blasts that tore through churches and luxury hotels in the country.
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The security personnel include 9,350 police officials and 2,542 troops from the tri forces (Army, Navy and Air Force), he said.
The St Sebastian s Church at Negombo s Katuwapitiya was the worst-hit in the Easter Sunday blasts that rocked the island nation in 2019 with 114 people dying in the church attack.
The Buddhist-majority nation was about to mark a decade since ending a 37-year-long Tamil separatist war in May 2009 when the suicide bombings in 2019 rocked the country.
Colombo: Security at churches across Sri Lanka have been beefed up ahead of Easter on Sunday, police said on Saturday, in the wake of the April 2019 coordinated attacks on tourists and minority Christian community in the country in which 270 people were killed.
Sri Lanka's ex-president and his intelligence chiefs should be prosecuted for failing to prevent suicide bombings two years ago on Easter Sunday that killed 279 people, according to an investigation released Tuesday.