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Sri Lanka’s ex-police chief sentenced to death over 2019 Easter bombings

South China Morning Post 31 July 2026 15h ago
Sri Lanka’s ex-police chief sentenced to death over 2019 Easter bombings
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A Sri Lanka court sentenced former police chief Pujith Jayasundara to death on Friday for failing to prevent the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, which killed 279 people including 45 foreigners. In a majority decision, a three-judge bench ruled that the former inspector general had failed in his duties to stop the deadly attacks, blamed on a home-grown Islamist extremist group. Jayasundara, 66, can ap
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