Colombo (AFP): The Sri Lankan government believes a local Islamist extremist group called the National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) is behind the deadly suicide bomb attacks that killed nearly 300 people, government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said Monday (April 22).
Senaratne, who is also a cabinet minister, added that the government was investigating whether the group had “international support”.
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