Colombo explosions
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Raids were conducted by a team of NIA sleuths at seven places in Coimbatore.
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Several social media sites had been blocked to prevent the spread of fake news in the aftermath of multiple explosions in the country on Easter.
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Sri Lankan authorities say that there was one woman among the nine bombers who carried out the country's worst terror attack, killing 253 people and injuring over 500 others.
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The duo has been handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for further investigations.
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Zainee Hashim, Rilwan Hashim and their father Mohamed Hashim, who were seen in a video circulating on social media calling for all-out war against non believers, were among 15 killed.
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One of the worst attacks in Sri Lanka's history has prompted one of the most stringent security counter measures in the island nation in the week after.
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Moments later, news agency ANI quoted Sri Lanka's Defence Minister, Ruwan Wijewardene saying that the Special Task Force (STF) detected a suspicious motorbike and had approached it.
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Forty persons, including the driver of a van allegedly used by the suicide bombers, have been arrested so far in connection.
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According to IS, the attacks were carried out by Abu Ubaida, Abu al-Mukhtar, Abu Khalil, Abu Hamza, Abu al-Barra, Abu Muhammad and Abu Abdullah.
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At least 321 people were killed and about 500 people wounded in the attack.
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The Sri Lankan police made 16 more arrests during the past 24 hours, taking the total number of arrested suspects to 40.
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Among the Indians killed in the deadly blast there were four Janata Dal (Secular) workers from Karnataka, who were on a visit to Sri Lanka, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy said on Monday in Bengaluru.
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The suicide bombings struck three churches and three luxury hotels Sunday in the island nation's deadliest violence since a devastating civil war ended in 2009.
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Questions over why the intelligence report warning was not acted upon could feed into a feud between Prime Minister Wickremesinghe and the president.
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An explosion went off on Monday in a van near a church in Sri Lankan capital Colombo when bomb squad officials were trying to defuse the bomb, Reuters reported quoting an eyewitness.
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The detonators were found just a day after suicide bombers targeted churches and hotels in Colombo killing at least 290 people and injuring about 500.
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Ships and maritime surveillance aircraft Dornier have reportedly been deployed with the primary objective of ensuring that the suicide bombers responsible for the explosions are unable to escape from Sri Lanka.
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Minister Rajitha Senaratne has said the National Tawheed Jamath outfit is suspected to be have organised and coordinated the attacks.
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The death toll could possibly rise even further with many of the injured in a serious condition.
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Even as 13 suspects have been arrested in connection with explosions on Easter, the threat of more explosive devices in and around Colombo remains.
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Sri Lanka's Ministry of External Affairs informed that three from India,one from Portugal, two from Turkey, three from the UK and two holding US and UK passports had died in Sunday's explosions.
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At least 200 people were killed and over 400 injured in the explosions which shattered the peace in Sri Lanka.
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