US ambassador: Foreign groups likely behind Sri Lanka attacks

US ambassador: Foreign groups likely behind Sri Lanka attacks

Reuters |Published:  04.24.19 , 10:56

The scale and sophistication of the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka suggested the involvement of an external group such as Islamic State, the US ambassador to said on Wednesday as the death toll jumped to 359.

 

The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the coordinated bomb attacks on churches and hotels but gave no evidence to support that.

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