St. Sebastian church where dozens of people are killed in the Easter Sunday attacks on April 21, 2019. (Photo: Reuters) |
According to spokesman Rajitha Senaratne, there was an international network without which these attacks could not have succeeded. Sri Lanka’s President said the country will seek foreign assistance to track the international links.
Two of the suicide bombers blew themselves up at the luxury Shangri-La Hotel on Colombo’s seafront, said Ariyananda Welianga, a senior official at the government’s forensic division. The others targeted three churches and two other hotels. A fourth hotel and a house in a suburb of the capital Colombo were also targeted. Welianga said investigations are still going on.
There was no claim of responsibility for the Easter Sunday attacks, which mainly took place during church services or when hotel guests were sitting down for breakfast buffets.