Catholic church services have been cancelled and muslim leaders want to do the same with the Friday prayer in the mosques after warnings from the police on Thursday about potential further terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, writes the New York Times.
According to the newspaper officials said that they are trying to find at least one person is believed to be equipped with explosives, and a letter containing ”credible information” has stated that the same terrorist group that carried out Sunday’s of the world, is planning a new attack. The letter shall particularly point out the objectives linked to sufism, a branch of islam that is not accepted by some fundamentalists.
the Swedish time also confirmed Sri Lanka’s defense secretary Hemasiri Fernando that he will leave his post. Already during the Wednesday came information that the president Maithripala Sirisena called for both Fernando and the country’s chief of police Pujith Jayasundras departure, after that the criticism levelled against the intelligence service’s failure to prevent the terrorist attacks.
Indian security agencies issued three formal warnings to the service in Sri Lanka on to a våldsfrämjande islamist network planned terrorist attacks in the country.
during the weeks before the incidents then occurred during the easter holiday, but according to the sources of The Guardian was a conversation between investigators in India and Sri Lanka as far as four months earlier. Already then detailed information about the network’s leaders and members have been submitted.
Despite this, the Sri Lankan government not to have been informed about the potential threat, the country’s prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said.
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Reuters said Hemasiri Fernando that he does not consider himself to have made some mistakes personally, but that he departs for the ar responsibility for the shortcomings in some of his institutions.
He also says that the security authorities, actively worked with the intelligence about potential attacks during the time that they occurred.
– We worked with it. All of the authorities worked with it, he says to Reuters.
in easter bomb attack against churches and hotels in Sri Lanka. Previously specified total of 259 persons, but during Thursday announced the country’s health authority banned that you’ve written down the number. Incorrect information from bårhusen is reported to be the reason for the estimated number of deaths is too high.
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