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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bharatha Mallawarachi

Sri Lanka's president will appoint a committee to probe allegations of complicity in 2019 bombings

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Sri Lanka’s president said Sunday he will appoint a committee chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge to investigate allegations made in a British television report that the South Asian country’s intelligence was complicit in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people.

The attacks, which included simultaneous suicide bombings, targeted three churches and three tourist hotels. The dead included 42 foreigners from 14 countries.

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