Sri Lankan police enter the main mosque of National Towheed Jamaat, just a day after authorities declared it and another organization terror groups over the Easter suicide bombings.
Police enter the mosque, located in Kattankudy in eastern Sri Lanka, and stop an interview with foreign journalists and officials at the mosque.
Relatives pay their respects in front of the graves of the victims of recent bomb blasts at St. Sebastian’s Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on April 28, 2019, a week after a series of jihadist bomb blasts targeted churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday. (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP)
Later, a senior police officer dispersed journalists waiting outside, saying authorities were conducting a “cordon and search operation.”
Police then left, locking up the mosque just before afternoon prayers were to start.
Authorities banned National Towheed Jamaat over its ties to Mohammed Zahran, the alleged mastermind of the attacks that killed over 250 people a week ago.
— AP
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