Sri Lanka has reduced the number of victims of attacks to over 100: "There was a double counting"

The Sri Lankan authorities have reduced by more than a third the number of victims of the Easter Sunday attacks and announced that the balance sheet would be 253 dead and no 359 as reported.

In a statement released Thursday night, the health ministry announced that at the end of autopsies, medical services had concluded that bodies of mutilated victims have been counted several times.

The official balance issued by the police was reduced by 106 After comparing autopsies and DNA reports, the ministry said in its statement. "Several victims were very mutilated. There was "double counting" in some cases, the ministry said.

Last Sunday, several suicide bombers attacked the Christian minority of the island of South Asia in three churches that officiated during Easter Mbad, causing a bloodbath. At the same time, three luxury hotels were victims of explosions.

Authorities attribute their copyrights to local extremist group National Thowheeth Jama & Ath (NTJ). In addition, the jihadist Islamic State (IS) organization claimed the attacks in a video.

Sri Lankan police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said that 58 people were arrested attacks.

Civil aviation authorities also banned drones and unmanned aircraft, while authorities continued to carry out controlled explosions of suspicious objects four days after the suicide attacks.