Sri Lanka, April 9 -- Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala has claimed that ongoing investigations have uncovered that the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks were not an isolated incident, but a result of a conspiracy that had been in motion since 2017.

Delivering a statement in Parliament today (09), the Minister revealed that the Easter attacks were the result of a series of coordinated and systematically executed events carried out over several years by the same group, the Minister said.

He said investigations have linked multiple incidents leading up to the attacks, including:

Accordingly, the Minister stated that investigations have revealed that these incidents form a chain of interconnected events, clearly indicating a long-term org...