Sri Lankan authorities are investigating what role international terrorist networks may have played in a string of suicide bombings on Easter Sunday.
A screengrab from a video posted by the Islamic State group's Aamaq information arm on Tuesday, April 23, 2019, purports to show Mohammed Zahran, a.k.a. Zahran Hashmi, center, the man Sri Lanka says led the Easter attack that killed over 300 people, along with other purported attackers. NBC News cannot confirm whether any of the men was among those responsible for the bombings.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.
And on Wednesday, the Sri Lankan Prime Minister's office confirmed that Defense Secretary Hemasiri Fernando had resigned amid criticism over the handling of recent warnings from international intelligence agencies that an attack on Sri Lankan sites was likely.Sri Lankan government officials have blamed the Islamist group National Thowheed Jamath for the attacks.
The validity of the video and identities of the men have not been confirmed, according to Flashpoint Intelligence, a global security firm and NBC News consultant. Coffins are carried during a mass funeral at St. Sebastian Church on April 23, 2019 in Negombo, Sri Lanka.NTJ is a little-known group previously linked to the defacing of Buddhist statues in the country. It has not been linked to prior deaths.on Tuesday to ban the NTJ and list it as a terrorist organization.
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