Sri Lanka indicts ISIL ‘mastermind’ over Easter Sunday bombings

Prosecutors indict alleged mastermind of the 2019 suicide bombings, along with 24 men they say are co-conspirators.

Sri Lankan prosecutors have indicted the alleged mastermind of the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombings along with 24 men they say are co-conspirators in the island’s worst single “terror” attack.

Almost 300 people including dozens of foreign nationals were killed in the April 21 attacks on three churches and three luxury hotels, in a wave of killings singling out Sri Lanka’s Christian community.

Prosecutors have brought more than 20,000 charges against the suspects, three of whom have already been accused of “terrorism” by the US Justice Department.