The Islamic State is claiming responsibility for the coordinated suicide bombing attacks across the South Asian island of Sri Lanka.
According to ABC News, the terrorist group first claimed responsibility for the attack through their Amaq news agency on Tuesday. In Arabic, the group said that the bombers were “among the fighters of the Islamic State.”
According to extremist group watchdog SITE Intelligence Group, ISIS later identified the seven bombers in a formal statement.
According to ABC News, several U.S. sources briefed on the incident believe that ISIS may indeed have been involved in the attack.
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe also noted that the Sri Lankan government knew that there were “foreign links” to the bombings. He said in a press conference, “All that we knew earlier is that there were foreign links and that this could not have been done just locally.”
He continued, “There has been training done and a coordination which we [have] not seen earlier.”
According to Sri Lanka’s State Minister of Defense Ruwan Wijewardene, some officials were made aware that an attack may happen, but the information was only shared among a few, the Associated Press reports.
Wijewardene said, “By now it has been established that the intelligence units were aware of this attack and a group of responsible people were informed…
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