Hilmy Ahamed, vice president of the Muslim Council of Sri Lanka and Reyyaz Salley, chairman of Colombo's Dewatagaha Mosque, said they had repeatedly attempted to warn authorities about Hashim, pictured in a photograph released by a news agency affiliated with ISIS on Tuesday. Hashim, a radical Islamist preacher, was known to the local community for ranting against moderate Muslims and Buddhists.
The developments come as Sri Lankan police detained 18 more people for questioning over the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels,The extremist Islamic State made its claim after Sri Lankan officials said the suicide bombings in Sri Lanka were carried out in retaliation for attacks on two mosques in New Zealand that killed 50 people in March.
Sri Lankan police said they have carried out a controlled explosion of a suspicious motor-scooter parked near the popular Savoy cinema in the capital Colombo.An unexpected explosion in Colombo as the bomb squad investigates a suspicious item following the Easter Sunday attacks. The leader of one of those groups blew himself up in the attack on the luxury Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo.
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