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Sri Lanka blasts: Islamic State claims responsibility, Lankan PM confirms Indian high commission was a target

The terror group has claimed responsibility for coordinated bombings in Sri Lanka which killed 321 people and injured about 500 others, the group's AMAQ news agency said on Tuesday.

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Islamic State has claimed the responsibility of Sri Lanka serial bombings on Easter Sunday as revenge for the Christchurch attack. The terror group has claimed responsibility for coordinated bombings in Sri Lanka which killed 321 people and injured about 500 others, the group's AMAQ news agency said on Tuesday. The group did not give evidence for its claim.

According to detailed Al Ammaq release, it mentions the names of  Abu Ubaida ... Abu Al Mukhtar ... Abu Khalil ... Abu Hamza ... Abu Al Baraa ... Abu Mohammed and Abu Abdallah as the suicide bombers.

IS claims that Abu Hamza attacked St Antony church and blew his explosive vest. Abu Khalil blew himself in St Sebastian church. He bombed himself in the middle of infidels who were celebrating.

Abu Mohammad was at Zion Church Batticaloa. Abu Ubaida in Shangri-La, Abu Al Barra in Cinnamon Grand, Abu U Mukhtar at Kingsbury Hotels.

Abu Abdullah also clashed with the police and killed 3 policemen. This was the 8th blast which had occurred hours after the first six blasts. 

Out of close to 40 foreign nationals, at least 10 Indians were also killed in the terror attack which shook the country on Sunday. The investigating agencies earlier in the day have held a Syrian national in connection with the terror attack and now terror group ISIS has claimed the responsibility. 

Meanwhile, Sri Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe has also confirmed that IS terrorists have also planned to target the Indian High Commission in Colombo. Speaking to an English news channel, he said that India has shared intelligence but there have been some lapses.

Sri Lanka Sunday witnessed its worst terror attack after churches and luxury hotels, a guest house were targeted after 8 explosions rock Lanka capital Colombo.

Two days after the attacks, a senior Sri Lanka minister said that the blasts were carried out by local Islamist extremists in retaliation for the mosque shootings in New Zealand, citing results of the initial probe.

Addressing an emergency session of Parliament to discuss Sunday's attacks, Sri Lanka's state minister of defence Ruwan Wijewardene said the early findings of the ongoing probe found that the suicide bombings were in revenge for the March 15 deadly attacks at two mosques in Christchurch which left 50 people dead.

"The preliminary investigations have revealed that what happened in Sri Lanka (on Sunday) was in retaliation for the attack against Muslims in Christchurch," Wijewardene told Parliament.

According to an intelligence memo sent to some government officials before the attack, a member of the Islamic extremist group blamed for the Sri Lanka attacks had posted "extremist content" on social media after the Christchurch shootings were carried out by a right-wing extremist, Wijewardene said.

Leaders from the world have condemned and expressed their solidarity with Sri Lanka in wake of the recent attack, where several people have lost their dear ones. 

Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had called Sri Lankan president and prime minister and condemned the worst terror attack in the country. 

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