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'All suspects in Sri Lanka bombings arrested or dead'

All suspected plotters and those directly linked to Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings have either been arrested or are dead, the country's acting police chief says.
Deserted beaches, empty rooms: SL tourism hit after bombings

Sri Lanka's $4.4 billion tourism industry is reeling from cancellations as travellers shun the sun and sand Indian Ocean island after multiple suicide bombings that killed over 250 people two weeks ago.
SL to air Sunday mass on TV as attack threat persists

Sri Lanka's Catholic Church will televise a private Sunday mass after cancelling regular services over fears of a repeat of Easter's suicide bombings, even as police and troops tightened security.
Sri Lanka on alert for uniformed militants

Sri Lankan security officials warn that Islamist militants behind Easter Sunday's suicide bombings are planning imminent attacks and could be dressed in military uniforms.
Security high as SL marks one week from suicide attacks

Sri Lanka's Roman Catholic has condemned the Easter attacks as "an insult to humanity" as the tense and grief-stricken country marks a week since suicide bombers hit three churches and three luxury hotels.
11 Bangladeshis who worked at SL factory sent back

Eleven Bangladeshi nationals, who used to work at a copper factory owned by Inshaf Ibrahim involved in the Shangri-La hotel bombing in Colombo on April 21, have been sent back by Sri Lanka.
Wanted extremist cleric Hashim died in hotel attack: SL president

An extremist leader considered a central figure in Sri Lanka's Easter suicide bombings died in the attacks, the president says as the police chief became the latest figure to quit over the failure to prevent the massacre.
Top Sri Lanka defence official resigns over blasts

Sri Lanka's top defence official resigns over security failures that led to the deadly Easter bombings, as Catholic churches suspended all services fearing further attacks.
Sri Lanka halts low season visa-free plan after bombings

Sri Lanka's government says it was suspending plans to grant citizens of 39 countries visa-free entry during the country's tourism low season after deadly Easter bombings that killed hundreds.
'No evidence to link SL bombings to NZ mosque attacks'

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she has not seen a shred of evidence to support claims the Easter Sunday massacres in Sri Lanka were a retaliation to the Christchurch mosque attacks.
Muslims flee, Christians grieve in SL town torn by violence

As mourners buried the remains of Christian worshippers killed by the Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks in Sri Lanka, hundreds of Muslim refugees fled Negombo on the country's west coast where communal tensions have flared in recent days.
Zayan laid to rest

Awami League leader Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim’s grandson Zayan Chowdhury, who was killed in the series blasts in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, has been laid to rest in Dhaka.
2 Muslim brothers were Sri Lanka hotel suicide bombers: Sources

Muslim brothers carried out two of the hotel suicide blasts in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, part of a wave of bombings that killed more than 320 people, police sources tell AFP.
Islamic State claims responsibility for Sri Lanka bombings

The Islamic State group says it was behind a devastating string of suicide attacks against churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that killed more than 320 people on Easter Sunday.
Zayan’s body will arrive tomorrow, his father in ICU

Moshiul Haque Chowdhary, son-in-law of Awami League Presidium Member Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, has been taken to ICU of a hospital in Sri Lanka after surgeries.
LANKA reels from horror

Sri Lanka said yesterday it was invoking emergency powers in the aftermath of devastating bomb attacks on hotels and churches, blamed on militants with foreign links, in which 290 people were killed and nearly 500 wounded.
Sheikh Selim’s grandson among dead

The grandson of Awami League Presidium Member Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim was killed in the series blasts that tore through churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.
Blast near Sri Lanka church as cops tried to defuse device

An explosion went off in a van near a church in Colombo, Sri Lanka, a day after scores were killed there, when bomb squad officials were trying to defuse the device, a police spokesman says.
3 children of Danish billionaire killed in Sri Lanka attacks

Denmark's richest man Anders Holch Povlsen and his wife lose three of their four children in the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka, a spokesman for Povlsen's fashion firm says.
Sheikh Selim’s grandson killed in Sri Lanka blasts

Awami League leader Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim’s grandson Zayan Chowdhury has been killed in the series blasts in Sri Lanka.
‘7 suicide attackers behind SL blasts; int'l network involved’

Seven suicide bombers took part in the attacks on churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka that killed 290 people and wounded more than 500, an investigator says, while a government spokesman says an international network was involved.
US State Dept warns 'terrorists' continue plotting Sri Lanka attacks

The US State Department says in a revised travel advisory 'terrorist groups' are continuing to plot possible attacks in Sri Lanka after 290 people are killed and about 500 wounded in blasts in churches and luxury hotels.
Sri Lanka blasts: 36 foreigners killed, 9 missing

As many as 36 foreigners have been killed and nine reported missing following Easter Sunday attacks in different parts of Sri Lanka.
Sheikh Selim’s son-in-law hurt, grandson missing after SL blasts: Hasina

The son-in-law of Awami League leader Sheikh Selim was injured in Sunday's explosions in Sri Lanka and his grandson has remained missing, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says.
SL Police chief had warned of attack threat

Sri Lanka's police chief made a nationwide alert 10 days before Sunday's (April 21) bomb attacks in the country that suicide bombers planned to hit "prominent churches", according to the warning seen by AFP.
Condolences pour in after Sri Lanka blasts

Global political and religious leaders and people from all walks of life unite in their shock and condemnation as they express their condolences in social media after a series of explosions across Sri Lanka left over a hundred people dead and several hundred others injured.
Sri Lanka blasts death toll rises to 290

The death toll rises to 290 while about 500 are left wounded a day after a string of bombings at churches and luxury hotels ripped through Sri Lanka, amid warnings that more attacks were possible.