COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s criminal investigators arrested the country’s former intelligence chief on Wednesday in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people, police said. Retired Maj. Gen. Suresh Sallay was taken into custody at dawn in a suburb of the capital, police said. “He was arrested for conspiracy and aiding and abetting the Easter Sunday attacks,” an investigating officer said.

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s criminal investigators arrested the country’s former intelligence chief on Wednesday in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279…

Investigators say Suresh Sallay aided and conspired in the deadly Easter Sunday attacks that killed nearly 300 people.

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s president has cleared investigators to detain the country’s former intelligence chief for up to three months of questioning over his alleged role in the 2019…