Sri Lanka is on edge five days after Easter bombings as officials warn of threat of more attacks
A Tuk Tuk driver is stopped at a checkpoint in Colombo, Sri Lanka, as an army officer searches a vehicle search on Thursday.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, in an interview with the Associated Press, warned that suspects linked to Sunday’s attacks remain at large and “may go out for a suicide attack.”Fallout over government failures to act on warnings of possible attacks around Easter prompted Hemasiri Fernando to step down from his post as defense secretary after Sri Lanka’s president demanded his resignation Wednesday. His departure was the second high-level official change stemming from the bombings.
Soldiers patrol near the Galle Face Green, an oceanside park in Colombo, on Thursday. Police in the capital arrested three people who had grenades and swords, and employees at one luxury hotel that was attacked Sunday were told to remain indoors. As police continued to search for explosives, they detonated a suspicious item found in a garbage dump in Pugoda, a town about 20 miles from Colombo.
Halim, the federal minister of postal services and Muslim affairs, said he was acting “in solidarity” with the Catholic Church and “in protest against the barbaric acts” of the bombers.
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