Sri Lanka files charges against 25 Easter Sunday bombing suspects

Attorney general asks chief justice to appoint a special three-member high court bench to hear the cases speedily.

Sri Lanka has filed 23,270 charges against 25 people in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks on churches and hotels that killed 269 people, according to the president’s office. The charges filed on Tuesday under the country’s anti-terror law include conspiring to murder, aiding and abetting, collecting arms and ammunition and attempted murder, it said on Wednesday. The attorney general also asked the chief justice to appoint a special three-member high court bench to hear the cases speedily, it said in a statement.