Sri Lanka's police chief issued a warning on April 11, saying a 'foreign intelligence agency' had reported NTJ was planning attacks on churches and the Indian high commission.
Sri Lankan women looks into a container where bodies of bomb blast victims are kept at a hospital in Negombo on April 22, 2019, a day after a nearby church was hit in a series of explosions targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. Picture: ISHARA S. KODIKARA / AFP
After long wrangling with radical Buddhist leaders, suicide bomb attacks against churches and hotels would be a spectacular departure for the little-known Islamic extremist group. It highlighted the Christmas Eve bombings in Indonesia in 2000, where al-Qaeda worked with local group Jemmah Islamiyah, and the 2005 hotel bombings in Amman masterminded by an Al-Qaeda affiliate.
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