At least 15 dead in assault on ISIS group in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Police and the army say they have identified a cache of the terrorist organization. After a shooting of more than one hour, three men blew themselves up. At least 15 people, including six children, died in the night of Friday (April 26th) to Saturday (April 27th) during an assault by Sri Lankan security forces against suspected jihadists, local police said. Soldiers and police tried to enter what was a cache of the Islamic State organization in Kalmunai (in the east of the country), according to their information, when three men blew themselves up, killing three women and six children. Exchange of shots for more than an hour These suicide bombers are suspected of belonging to the National Thawheed Jama'ut (NTJ), one of the two Sri Lankan Islamist groups to which the authorities blame the attacks of Easter Sunday. "Three other men" were also found dead outside the house and are believed to have been suicide bombers, police said..... Read the full article
