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National Thowheed Jamath: The Group Blamed For Sri Lanka Serial Blasts
Sri Lanka Bomb Blasts: A little-known group, the National Thowheed Jamath or NTJ has been accused of carrying out the serial bomb blasts in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.
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Priest Recounts Moment Bomb Went Off In Lankan Church
The assistant parish priest of the St Sebastian Church, one of the targets of the series of bomb blasts in Sri Lanka, on Monday said that the Easter Sunday service was reduced to people wailing and shouting and nobody knew what was happening.
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Lankan Celeb Chef, Seen In Easter Breakfast Selfie, Killed Hours Later
Minutes before a bomb ripped through the Shangri-La Hotel on Easter, a Sri Lankan celebrity chef's daughter posted a picture on Facebook of her family enjoying breakfast at the hotel, one of the eight targeted places on Sunday.
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Sri Lanka Narrows Down On Islamist Group After Blasts, Declares Emergency
The Sri Lankan government believes a local Islamist extremist group called the National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ) was behind the deadly suicide bomb attacks that killed nearly 300 people, government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said Monday.
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Karnataka Political Workers, On Post-Poll Holiday, Killed In Sri Lanka Blasts
Four members of the Janata Dal Secular (JDS) were among five Indians killed in a series of blasts that struck Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy confirmed today. They were part of a seven-member group from Dasarahalli that had gone to the island nation after the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections on April 11.
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Sri Lanka Police Find 87 Bomb Detonators At Colombo's Main Bus Station: Updates
Bomb Blast in Sri Lanka Updates: A series of eight devastating bomb blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing 290 people, including dozens of foreigners. The apparently coordinated attacks were the deadliest to hit the country in the decade since the end of a bloody civil war that kil...
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Multiple Blasts In Sri Lanka Kill 207, Air Force Defuses IED At Airport: Updates
In a series of eight devastating bomb blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing at least 207 people, including dozens of foreigners.
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207 Dead In Serial Blasts In Sri Lanka's Worst Violence Since Civil War
A series of eight devastating bomb blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing 207 people, including dozens of foreigners. Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe condemned the attacks - the worst act of violence since the end of Sri Lanka's civil war a decade ago - as "cowardly...
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National Thowheed Jamath: The Group Blamed For Sri Lanka Serial Blasts
Sri Lanka Bomb Blasts: A little-known group, the National Thowheed Jamath or NTJ has been accused of carrying out the serial bomb blasts in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.
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Priest Recounts Moment Bomb Went Off In Lankan Church
The assistant parish priest of the St Sebastian Church, one of the targets of the series of bomb blasts in Sri Lanka, on Monday said that the Easter Sunday service was reduced to people wailing and shouting and nobody knew what was happening.
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Lankan Celeb Chef, Seen In Easter Breakfast Selfie, Killed Hours Later
Minutes before a bomb ripped through the Shangri-La Hotel on Easter, a Sri Lankan celebrity chef's daughter posted a picture on Facebook of her family enjoying breakfast at the hotel, one of the eight targeted places on Sunday.
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Sri Lanka Narrows Down On Islamist Group After Blasts, Declares Emergency
The Sri Lankan government believes a local Islamist extremist group called the National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ) was behind the deadly suicide bomb attacks that killed nearly 300 people, government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said Monday.
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Karnataka Political Workers, On Post-Poll Holiday, Killed In Sri Lanka Blasts
Four members of the Janata Dal Secular (JDS) were among five Indians killed in a series of blasts that struck Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy confirmed today. They were part of a seven-member group from Dasarahalli that had gone to the island nation after the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections on April 11.
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Sri Lanka Police Find 87 Bomb Detonators At Colombo's Main Bus Station: Updates
Bomb Blast in Sri Lanka Updates: A series of eight devastating bomb blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing 290 people, including dozens of foreigners. The apparently coordinated attacks were the deadliest to hit the country in the decade since the end of a bloody civil war that kil...
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Multiple Blasts In Sri Lanka Kill 207, Air Force Defuses IED At Airport: Updates
In a series of eight devastating bomb blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing at least 207 people, including dozens of foreigners.
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207 Dead In Serial Blasts In Sri Lanka's Worst Violence Since Civil War
A series of eight devastating bomb blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing 207 people, including dozens of foreigners. Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe condemned the attacks - the worst act of violence since the end of Sri Lanka's civil war a decade ago - as "cowardly...
