at Least 15 bodies, including six children, have been found in a house that the military and police in Sri Lanka struck in Sainthamaruthu on the east coast. Data on suspects, on continued free men, and that more acts of terrorism threaten has led to numerous searches in the past week.
the sri lankan police said three suicide bombers triggered bombs inside the house when they were repressed by the forces, where three women and six children, also were killed.
the ICE-members of the fire when the soldiers and police would storm a house in the vicinity of the town of Kalmunai. The battle should have lasted more than an hour.
– When we returned the fire, killed two armed men, ” says the spokesperson Sumith Atapattu, who adds that at least one civilian that ended up in the fire also killed.
the Police data is somewhat contradictory to the military. The police said that the three dead men were found outside the building was the suspected perpetrators.
the Raid was made after a tip and has links to the massacres on easter Sunday, when suicide bombers attacked churches and hotels in Sri Lanka. The police said that they had found the ICE-the flag that was used in a video as the member spread a couple days after the attack.
Sri Lanka was shaken by a series of attacks on easter Sunday when at least 253 were killed. Authorities have identified the domestic islamist groups, the National Thawheed Jama’out and Jammiyathul Millathu Ibrahim, in addition, terrorsekten IS said to be behind the attacks, but how the relationship evolved is not known.