Sri Lankan police looking for 140 people with IS links

by VTV428 April 2019 Last updated at 07:17 AM

VTV.vn - On Friday, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said police are looking for 140 people believed to have links with the Islamic State group over the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels that killed at least 253 people.

He told reporters some Sri Lankan youths had been involved with the extremist group since 2013, and that top defense and police chiefs had not shared information with him about the impending attacks.

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