Sri Lanka Bombings Claimed by ISIS, and President Vows Shakeup
2019-04-24 10:26:54 source：The New York Times
April 23, 2019
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The Islamic State claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the coordinated suicide bombings on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, as the president of the traumatized nation promised to dismiss senior officials who had failed to act on warnings about the attacks.
As Sri Lankans buried the dead from the half-dozen Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 300 people, the Islamic State issued a statement boasting of the suicide assaults. It also distributed an online video showing the person Sri Lankan officials suspect of having led the attacks.
In the video, the man believed to be the chief suspect, Mohammed Zaharan, a little-known extremist preacher from Sri Lanka, leads a group of black-clad masked disciples pledging fealty to the Islamic State.
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