Indian police raid houses in southern state a week after Sri Lanka bombings

Indian police raid houses in southern state a week after Sri Lanka bombings
# 29 April 2019 09:51 (UTC +04:00)

Indian police said on Sunday they raided the houses of three suspects in connection with a case concerning 15 people who left India to join the militant “Islamic State” group, a week after bombings in Sri Lanka that killed more than 250, ONA reports citing Reuters.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) said it carried out searches at the three houses in the southern state of Kerala, located near the tip of the Indian peninsula.

The coordinated suicide bombings by Islamist militants at hotels and churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday sent shockwaves through the Indian Ocean island state that had enjoyed relative peace since a civil war ended a decade ago.

“These persons are suspected to have links with some of the accused persons in the said case who had exited India to join the proscribed terrorist organization ISIS/Daish,” the NIA said in a statement, using other names by which “Islamic State” is known.

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