Public Masses will resume on Sunday, Catholic Church in Sri Lanka says two weeks after Easter bombings killed 253 people
Security personnel stand guard in front of St Anthony's Shrine, which was also hit in a string of suicide bomb attacks across the island on Easter Sunday, in Colombo. April 29, 2019. Public Mass will resume on Sunday, Sri Lanka's Catholic Church said on Tuesday, two weeks after Easter Sunday bombings killed 253 people at three churches and three luxury hotels.
Security in Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka remains tight after the April 21 suicide bomb attacks on hotels and churches.Sri Lankan security officials warned that the group behind Easter Sunday's suicide bombings are planning imminent attacks and could be dressed in military uniforms. Tourist arrivals in Colombo will fall by 50 percent following the Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people, Sri Lanka's Tourism Bureau Chairman Kishu Gomes said on Monday.
Sirisena said he was using emergency powers to ban any form of face covering in public. The restriction will take effect from Monday, his office said in a statement. The raid took place at the NTJ's base in the eastern town of Kattankudy a day after the group was banned under new emergency laws. The bomber destroyed part of the shrine's roof and scarred its walls with shrapnel, damaging the clock tower whose hands were still stuck at 8:45, a grim reminder of the dest ruction wreaked.But on Sunday morning, as Sri Lanka's Christians sought to come to terms with the tragedy, scores of Catholics held a heavily guarded vigil outside the Colombo church.
Navy forces have been deployed to clean up the church, remove bloodstains from its ceiling and wash away the overpowering stench of death that still lingered a week after the bombing. The men set off explosives after an hour-long gun battle with police Saturday, inside what was believed to be a terrorist hideout near the eastern town of Kalmunai, in the latest fallout from the Easter attacks.
Kalmunai is in the same region as the home town of the terrorist Zahran Hashim who founded the group accused of staging the attacks.Ajai Sahni, the executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi, said the Indian police knew it all. The office of President Maithripala Sirisena said in a statement Saturday evening that NTJ and Jamathei Millathu Ibraheem would be banned by presidential decree.
A military spokesman said soldiers exchanged gunfire with suspects after attempting to raid a building in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province. ''A search found explosives used to produce bombs, IS [Daesh] uniforms, curtains with IS [Daesh] logo, 150 gelignite sticks, 100,000 metal balls and a drone camera from a house in Samanthurai," a spokesman said. TRT World Nearly 10,000 soldiers were deployed across the Indian Ocean island state to carry out searches and provide security for religious centres, the military said on Friday.
At least 140 people believed linked to Daesh are being hunted by the police, President Maithripala Sirisena said on Friday.Sri Lankan authorities are investigating the source of funding to terrorist organisations that may be operating in the country, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said in an interview on Thursday.
"But the main reason we are here is because we want to say a special prayer for the victims of the church bombings," he added. He added that Hashim led the attack against the high-end hotel and was accompanied by a second bomber, identified only as "Ilham."
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