Sri Lankan court convicts 15 in 2019 Easter Sunday attacks case
India, Sept. 22 -- A Sri Lankan court on Tuesday found 15 of the 24 suspects guilty of involvement in the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide attacks, which killed 270 people, including 11 Indians, and injured over 500 others.
The three-judge High Court Trial-at-Bar comprising Judges Navaratne Marasinghe, Ramanathan Kannan and Sujeewa Nissanka acquitted 9 other suspects.
Nine suicide bombers belonging to the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) linked to ISIS carried out a series of devastating blasts that tore through three Catholic churches and as many luxury hotels on April 21, 2019, killing nearly 270 people, including 11 Indians, and injuring over 500.
Naufar Moulavi, the main suspect, was among those convicted by ...
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