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13 under arrest for Sri Lanka blasts: Police

  • 22 Apr 2019
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A security officer stands in front of St Anthony’s shrine in Colombo on Monday. Athit Perawongmetha/ Reuters

Sri Lankan police have arrested 13 men in connection with bomb blasts on churches and hotels that killed more than 200 people, officials said on Monday.

Authorities have not made public details on those held after Sunday’s attacks. But a police source told AFP the 13 were detained at two locations in and around Colombo.

The source said the 13 men are from the same radical group.

At least two of the eight attacks were carried out by suicide bombers, according to police and other sources, and three police were killed when another suicide bomber detonated explosives during a raid on a house where suspects were.

Agence France-Presse

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