Sri Lanka’s former intelligence chief arrested over 2019 Easter attacks
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Investigators say Suresh Sallay aided and conspired in the deadly Easter Sunday attacks that killed nearly 300 people.
Sri Lanka’s criminal investigators have arrested the country’s former intelligence chief in connection with the wave of 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people and upended the nation’s tourism economic lifeline, police said.
Retired Major-General Suresh Sallay was taken into custody at dawn in a suburb of the capital, police said on Wednesday.
“He was arrested for conspiracy and aiding and abetting the Easter Sunday attacks,” an investigating officer told the AFP news agency.
Sallay, who was promoted to State Intelligence Service (SIS) chief in 2019 after Gotabaya Rajapaksa became president, had been accused of involvement in the coordinated suicide bombings, a charge he has denied.
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