Tag: Sri Lanka terrorism

• Monday, April 29th 2019 - 08:48 UTC

  Sri Lankan president bans face covering following the terrorist attacks

  

  Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday announced a ban on face-covering, a week after Islamist militants carried out coordinated suicide bombings that killed 253 people.

• Tuesday, April 23rd 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  Rift between Sir Lanka president and PM kept security forces on the black about the coming attacks

  

  A rift between Sri Lanka's president and prime minister, which sparked a crisis last year, came under scrutiny on Monday a day after a series of deadly bomb blasts, with questions over how the government handled a recent warning of an attack.