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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s public security minister told parliament on Wednesday the nation’s ex-intelligence chief had directed the 2019 Easter Sunday attack, carried out allegedly by “Muslim extremists”.
This is the first official statement linking Maj Gen Suresh Sallay directly to the bombings that killed 279 people.
Minister Ananda Wijepala said the former spy chief, who was arrested in February on accusations of “aiding and abetting” the attack, had identified a Catholic church to be bombed.
Sallay has denied any involvement.
