#easterbombings

It's been a year since they left us. Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honour those we lost that day. As we have witnessed in the past, it is only in our darkest hour that we realise our true strength as a nation. Let's share this as we embrace them through their hard times. #EasterSundayAttacks #SL #EasterBombings #april21 #Srilanka https://www.instagram.com/p/B_P9Tu-lyq0/?igshid=a0xdssnbuvq9

The Sri Lankan police on Wednesday gave the names of nine people who committed the suicide bombings that killed 253 people on Easter Sunday, April 21, and announced that the property of the perpetrators would be confiscated. Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera confirmed that the perpetrators of suicide bombings in two luxury hotels, among the three hit establishments, were two brothers belonging to a prosperous Colombo family specialized in the export of spices. The group of Islamists who organized these coordinated attacks had sent a suicide bomber to each target location, except at the Shangri-La Hotel, where two explosions were fired by two men. One of the suicide bombers who blew themselves up at the Shangri-La Hotel was Zahran Hashim, leader of the local jihadi group who organized the attacks that were claimed by the Islamic State (IS) organization. Hashim was the head of the National Thowheeth Jama'ath Organization (NTJ), which was banned. He committed the attack in the company of a second suicide bomber, Ilham Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim...... Read the full article