they fly with their families when they are surrounded by the police

Fifteen people, including six children, were killed in Sri Lanka when Islamist terrorists blew themselves up with explosives while they were surrounded by police. The episode follows the mbadacre on Easter Sunday when suicide bombers belonging to an Islamist group killed more than 250 people, mostly Christians.

The new mbadacre took place in Sainthamaruthu, near the birthplace of the leader of the Sunday Easter attacks. The terrorists opened fire while the troops attempted to badault the house where they were staying. Three men blew up explosives, killing children and three women from their own families. Three others were shot. A civilian was caught in the crossfire and died, while a wounded woman and child were taken to the hospital.

The images on state television showed charred bodies inside the house, one of them holding a rifle in his hand. Explosives, a generator, a drone and batteries were also visible. Around the same time, security forces attacked another building in a nearby town, where they found explosives and a drone. Some 600 Muslims fled the area during the operation.

According to the police, the woman and the child were saved and injured. They could be the wife and daughter of radical Islamic cleric Zahran Hashim, the alleged mastermind of the mbadive bomb attacks perpetrated on Easter Sunday against three Christian churches and three luxury hotels.

Prohibited groups

In this context of security emergency, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has banned the two fundamentalist Islamic organizations whose members attribute the series of attacks perpetrated on Easter Sunday. Sirisena "has taken steps to ban national organizations Thawheed Jammath (NTJ) and Jamathei Millathu Ibraheem (JMI) in Sri Lanka," the presidency said in a statement. It also guarantees that, under the current state of emergency regulations, "measures have been taken to ban other extremist organizations operating in Sri Lanka", all of which are related.

The National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) and the Jammiyathul Millathu Ibrahim (JMI) are two local extremist organizations to which the authorities attribute responsibility for the series of attacks perpetrated against three churches and three luxury hotels. The investigators also suspected that these attacks, perpetrated by at least nine suicide bombers, had been perpetrated in coordination with the Islamic State (Isis), which had already claimed responsibility for these attacks on its Telegram site with images of the kamikaze commando holding the black flag of the Islamic State.

A source of information told the EFE news agency that the Thawhee Jamaat is an organization of about 40 to 50 members, located in the Kaththankudy area, in the far east of Sri Lanka. the momentum of the Islamic State, led by Umey Mohamed. President Sirisena said that in total, authorities had "information" on the existence of 130 suspects in order to maintain links with Isis on the island.

On Easter Sunday, a few hours after the first six attacks, a seventh detonation took place in a small hotel located a dozen kilometers south of the capital and the last in a residential complex, also in Colombo. In one of them, the wife of one of the terrorists who attacked one of the hotels took the plane when the police arrived: in addition to kill herself, she killed her three young children and three policemen. The woman was also pregnant.

Since then and throughout the week, security forces have carried out operations and confronted terrorists. Yesterday was one of them. It lasted several hours and resulted in 16 deaths, including 6 suicide bombers who blew themselves up with their families. Sainthamaruthu is a Muslim city located in the Indian Ocean. It is about 360 km from the capital, Colombo. It is not yet known how many suspected Islamists are still hiding. The Sri Lankan authorities have immediately accused the national Tawheed Jamaat, which is the local arm of the Islamic State. Security forces have raided the entire country since the attacks. The raid yesterday followed a warning to Sainthamaruthu. The area is not far from the hometown of Zahran Hashim, who died as a result of Sunday's attacks.