Those killed are believed to have been connected to the suicide bombers who attacked churches and hotels on Easter Sunday.
By Joanna Slater Joanna Slater Foreign correspondent covering South Asia Email Bio Follow April 27 at 8:53 AM SAINTHAMARUTHU, Sri Lanka — At least 15 people were killed, including six children, in bomb blasts and gunfire as Sri Lankan security forces raided a rented home used by a group with suspected links to the deadly Easter bombings.
The body of the man shot by security forces, identified by police only as “Niyaz,” still lay face down on the cobbled pavement. Security personnel seen at the site of an overnight gun battle between troops and suspected Islamist militants, on the east coast of Sri Lanka on Saturday. Police said the group is connected to the suicide bombers who carried out attacks on churches and luxury hotels in three cities on Easter Sunday, killing more than 250.
President Maithripala Sirisena said Friday that strict new measures were being taken to identify and track people, similar to controversial methods used during the civil war between separatist ethnic Tamils and the government that ended in 2009. The identities of those killed in the house, a white bungalow with a black metal gate and surrounded by a high wall, were not immediately known or released, and there was no explanation for the presence of six children, who are now dead.
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