A Sri Lankan Cabinet minister says he and seven others have received intelligence that the group behind the Easter Sunday bombings could strike the island nation again.
Minister of Health Rajitha Senarathna said Tuesday that the government ministers have been warned that they have been identified as targets of possible additional suicide attacks.
In a video Monday, a man who claimed to be the shadow leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, called the Sri Lankan suicide bombers “a thorn in the chests of the crusaders.” Global terrorism monitor SITE Intelligence says the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack on “apostate policemen” without producing evidence.
The statement did not provide any details about Aboobacker’s alleged plot in Kerala. But according to the statement, Aboobacker said during questioning that he’s been following the speeches and videos of Mohammed Zahran, the militant who Sri Lankan authorities said led the Easter attack, for more than a year.Sri Lanka’s president has lifted a nationwide social media ban that was imposed after Easter suicide bomb attacks that killed 253 people.
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