Islamic State claimed responsibility for attacks in Sri Lanka

The group ISIS claimed responsibility for attacks in Sri Lanka that left at least 310 dead and 500 wounded on Easter Sunday, via his advertising agency Amaq. The revelation is known after the Asian government anticipated its suspicions about a local Islamist movement: National Thowheet Jama & # 39; ath (NTJ).

In a few hours on Easter Sunday, a series of coordinated attacks has sowed horror in hotels and churches who officiated Mbad in various places on the island of Southeast Asia. This is the most violent attack this country has seen since the end of the civil war ten years ago.

"The perpetrators of the attacks against the citizens of the countries of the coalition (anti-EI) and Christians in Sri Lanka the day before yesterday are ISIS fighters", Announced Tuesday, April 23, his jihadist group, also known as ISIS, through his propaganda agency Amaq.

For his part, the President of Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena, declared the state of national emergency and asked for the help of the international community to capture those from abroad who have supported the local national group Thowheeth Jamath organize the attacks.

The under-secretary of government, Rajitha SenaratneHe said he was convinced that the attacks could not have been carried out by one group in the country. "There is an international network without which these attacks would not have been carried out ", he said.

Two Muslim brothers from Sri Lanka, listed among kamikazes, they played a key role in the attacks that made more than 300 dead Sunday in Sri Lanka, where an attack on a fourth hotel failed.

Sri Lanka in a state of emergency: new explosions and 310 dead

According to the agency AFP, the two brothers, about 20 years old and whose names have not been revealed, exploited in a family "terrorist cell", according to the researchers andAnd they exploded Sunday morning at Cinnamon Grand Hotel and Shangri-La in Colombo, respectively.

After the events, the United Nations in Geneva explained that the attack that killed more than 300 people, there were at least 45 children and adolescents, among them a baby of 18 months.

"The total is currently 45 children and adolescents killed (…) and this figure could increase further," said a spokesman for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Christophe Boulierac. In this regard, he added that other young victims "They are injured and are fighting for their survival."

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