Sri Lanka files charges against 25 Easter bombing suspects
The Hindu
The attorney general asked the chief justice to appoint a special three-member high court bench to hear the cases speedily
Sri Lanka has filed 23,270 charges against 25 people in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks on churches and hotels that killed 269 people, the president's office said Wednesday. The charges filed Tuesday under the country's anti-terror law include conspiring to murder, aiding and abetting, collecting arms and ammunition, and attempted murder, it said. The attorney general also asked the chief justice to appoint a special three-member high court bench to hear the cases speedily, it said in a statement.
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