The explosions around the country Sunday killed 359 people.
A police officer patrols outside the home belonging to spice merchant, Mohammad Yusuf Ibrahim, on April 25, 2019, in the suburb of Dematagoda in Colombo, Sri Lanka. By Joanna Slater and Joanna Slater Foreign correspondent covering South Asia Email Bio Follow Amantha Perera April 24 at 5:51 PM COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Inside the sprawling home with a white BMW parked outside, there was a terrifying secret.
The role played by the family in the devastating attacks that killed 359 people was one of several new details about the plot that emerged Wednesday, as Sri Lanka continued to bury its dead and investigators raced to understand whether the perpetrators had received help from abroad. The group included “quite well-educated people” from comfortable backgrounds, Wijewardene said. One perpetrator studied in Britain and pursued a master’s degree in Australia, he said.
Neighbors spoke fondly of Ibrahim, whom they described as a man from a modest background who rose to become a wealthy exporter of spices such as pepper and cinnamon. Ibrahim was one of at least 60 people arrested in the wake of the attacks, police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said. The Islamic State asserted responsibility for Sunday’s attacks, but Sri Lankan authorities said the group’s role remains unclear. Wijewardene, the junior defense minister, said there was a connection to the Islamic State “through ideology and maybe funding,” but the latter is still under investigation.
Questions persisted about the failure by Sri Lankan authorities to stop the plot. A top police official had warned in an April 11 intelligence report that a radical group could be plotting suicide attacks on popular churches in Sri Lanka. The report named Thowheed Jamaath and its leader, Hashim.
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