No one has publicly claimed responsibility for the attacks in Sri Lanka, which have triggered public outrage over the government’s failure to stop them
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—U.S. and Indian security services warned the Sri Lankan government of a possible attack weeks before a devastating series of bombings killed at least 290 people at churches and tourist hotels on Easter Sunday.
Sri Lanka government officials said some of the suicide bombers and others arrested were linked to an obscure radical Islamist group known as National Thowheeth Jamath, a group the government singled out to police for monitoring as a possible threat after the foreign security services issued their...
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