Governor of the Eastern Province, Mohamed Hizbullah has dismissed allegations that National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ) was responsible for the multiple bomb blasts that terrorized Sri Lanka on Sunday. The Governor made these remarks in a phone conversation with The Leaders Online, a Malaysian news outlet.
“Some people claim it is Thowheed Jamaath. We are investigating. We are consistently investigating but there are no evidence against any party, any community or any group. They are innocent but we are sure we can identify them (the perpetrators),” said Hizbullah to The Leaders Online on Sunday.
Rajitha says 'NTJ' involved
However, the Sri Lankan government said yesterday that 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 warning.
The sophistication of the Easter-morning attacks indicated to Sri Lankan and international terror experts that whoever carried them out likely had help from experienced international terrorists, perhaps even al Qaeda or Islamic State, Sri Lankan officials said.
“We have found that NTJ was involved in the attacks,” said Health MInister Rajitha Senaratne, using an abbreviation for what he called “a local organization.”
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