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More than 700 arrested so far over terrorist attack on Easter Sunday

By Editor

April 24, 2021

Around 700 suspects have been arrested so far in connection with the Easter Sunday bomb attacks , Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said.

According to him 202 of them were in remand custody whereas another 83 had been detained by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) for interrogations.

DIG Rohana said that the Easter Sunday attack mastermind Zahran Hashim’s wife Hadiya and Mohamed Ibrahim said that among the detained were Easter Sunday attack mastermind.