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Sri Lanka exhumes bodies to identify wife of Easter attack suicide bomber

COLOMBO: The exhumation of bodies of those killed in a suicide bomb explosion in a house when Sri Lankan police raided it a week after the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks commenced in the eastern town of Ampara to carry out a DNA test to identify the wife of a bomber, whose whereabouts is still not known.

On April 26, 2019, five days after the Easter Sunday terror attacks, the police investigators raided a house in the Sainthamaruthu area in the eastern town of Kalmunai looking for the brother of the main suspect Zahran Hashim, who was accused of carrying out the attacks on the Colombo star class hotels and churches that killed 270 people, including foreigners.

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