Sri Lanka's president will appoint a committee to probe allegations of complicity in 2019 bombings

FILE- In this April 21, 2019 file photo, Sri Lankan army soldiers secure the area around St. Anthony's Shrine after a blast on Easter Sunday in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Lankas president said Sunday he will appoint a committee chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge to investigate allegations made in a British television report that the South Asian countrys intelligence was complicit in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe's decision to appoint a committee headed by a judge to investigate claims that Sri Lankan intelligence had a hand in the bombings that were carried out by Islamic militants came under pressure from opposition lawmakers, religious leaders, activists as well as the victims' relatives. They say that previous probes failed to reveal the truth behind the bombings.

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Sri Lanka's president will appoint a committee to probe allegations of complicity in 2019 bombingsSri Lanka’s president says he will appoint a committee chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge to investigate allegations made in a British television report that the South Asian country’s intelligence was complicit in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people
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