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Suicide bomb leader cast shadow of fear over Sri Lanka town
Zahran Hashim’s sword-wielding zealotry fuelled fears in the sleepy east coast town of Kattankudy long before the cleric became Sri Lanka’s most wanted man over the horrific Easter Sunday suicide attacks. The country’s president announced Friday that Hashim led and died in
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Sri Lanka bomb blasts: The profile of suicide bombers
K Pragalath COLOMBO: The suicide bombers who caused the mayhem in Sri Lanka fit into certain sets of profile. The Leaders Online had previously highlighted the profile of Zahran Hashim. While Zahran appears to have come from an economically poor
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Sri Lanka bomb blasts: Knowing suicide bomber Zahran Hashim
By: Muheed Jeeran COLOMBO: Zahran Hashim is from Kathankudy in Batticaloa district, Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. He has a history of trouble making and Criminal Investigation Department was well aware of his history. His brother is also a moulavi,
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Sri Lanka attacks in bid to create Islamophobia?
By: Hema Subramaniam Anti-Muslim bigotry is a threat to all of us. In all major terrorist activity, the media and people quick to blame the Muslim community involvement in it. Sri Lanka blast is not spared from this speculation as
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Sri Lanka bomb blasts: Second Shangrila Hotel suicide bomber identified
By: K Pragalath COLOMBO: It has been confirmed that the second suicide bomber Insan Seelavan and Zahran Hashim are the two suicide bombers in Shangrila Hotel. The second suicide bomber at the Shangrila Hotel has been identified as Insan Seelavan,
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Sri Lanka bomb blasts: Share the information with us, Muslims urged
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Muslim Religious Affairs Minister Mohamed Hashim Abdul Haleem has called upon mosques to play a vital role in information gathering from the Muslim community in view of the bomb blasts over the weekend. Speaking at a press
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Sri Lanka bomb blasts: Spice trader dies after family members killed
By: K Pragalath COLOMBO: A famous spice trader Ibrahim Dawood Hathiyar of Colombo died tragically after it was discovered that he had rented out his home to terrorists who launched an attack on the Shangrila Hotel. “Ibrahim Dawood Hathiyar, a
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Sri Lanka bomb blasts: Coordinated attacks with the aid of international militants
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan officials said that the coordinated bombings of churches and hotels across the country on Easter Sunday had been carried out by National Thowheeth Jamaat, a little-known radical Islamist group, with help from international militants. Rajitha Senaratne, the
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Sri Lanka bomb blasts: Billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen lost three children
PUCHONG: Online fashion business tycoon Anders Holch Povlsen who is also among UK and Scotland’s biggest landowners has confirmed that he lost three out of four children in the bomb blasts that rocked Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Local UK
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