Kochi, April 15 -- Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka. A series of synchronised serial blasts rocked three churches and three deluxe star hotels resulting in the death of 280 persons including 45 foreign nationals. The victims include three police officers and eight suicide bombers while more than 500 persons were injured seriously. This was the first major casualty that struck the island nation after the dreaded LTTE and its leader Veluppillai Prabhakaran were decimated by the Sri Lankan Army in 2009.
According to Sri Lankan media which quoted intelligence officers, the eight suicide bombers were members of National Thowheeth Jama'ath, an Islamic outfit in the island nation and had possible links with most of the terrorist organisations in West A...