US believes Sri Lanka militants may be plotting more attacks
'We certainly have reason to believe that the active attack group has not been fully rendered inactive'
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COLOMBO:
The United States believes members of the militant group blamed for Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday attacks may be at large and planning more assaults, the US ambassador to Sri Lanka said on Tuesday.
“We do believe that the terrorist threat is ongoing and there may be active plotters. Active members of the attack group that carried out the terror attacks on Easter Sunday may still be at large,” Ambassador Alaina Teplitz told Reuters in an interview.
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“We certainly have reason to believe that the active attack group has not been fully rendered inactive. We do believe that there is active planning underway.”
Sri Lanka has been on high alert since the attacks on Easter
Sunday, with nearly 10,000 soldiers deployed across the island
to carry out searches and hunt down members of two local
militant groups believed to have carried out the attack.
The United States believes members of the militant group blamed for Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday attacks may be at large and planning more assaults, the US ambassador to Sri Lanka said on Tuesday.
“We do believe that the terrorist threat is ongoing and there may be active plotters. Active members of the attack group that carried out the terror attacks on Easter Sunday may still be at large,” Ambassador Alaina Teplitz told Reuters in an interview.
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“We certainly have reason to believe that the active attack group has not been fully rendered inactive. We do believe that there is active planning underway.”
Sri Lanka has been on high alert since the attacks on Easter
Sunday, with nearly 10,000 soldiers deployed across the island
to carry out searches and hunt down members of two local
militant groups believed to have carried out the attack.