The pregnant wife of one of the terrorists who murdered hundreds of people in a series of attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday detonated a bomb in her home, killing herself and their three children when police arrived following the massacres, according to multiple international reports.
Three police officers were killed in the blast triggered by Fatima Ibrahim when they entered the luxury apartment.
Her husband, Ilhan Ahmed Ibrahim, 31, and his brother Imsath Ahmed Ibrahim, 33, have been identified as two of the eight suicide bombers responsible for the Easter Sunday attacks at the Cinnamon Grand and Shangri-La hotels in the Sri Lanka capital city of Colombo.
Both were the sons of wealthy spice trader Mohammed Yusuf Ibrahim, who has now been arrested on suspicion of aiding the terrorists carry out Sunday’s attacks. His youngest son has also been detained for questioning. Another son, Ismail, is reportedly a fugitive.
The death toll in the deadly bombings was significantly revised by authorities on Thursday, from 359 to about 253. The national director-general for health services in the country cited the difficulty of identifying victims as a main reason for the revision, according to a report by The Guardian.
A woman previously named as a suspect has now been said to have been wrongly named, leaving the count at eight suicide bombers.
Police also said overnight Thursday the number of people held for questioning had risen to at least 76 suspects, including a Syrian national. Three churches and three hotels were blown up last Sunday in the string of bombing attacks, with other bombs exploding at the private home of one of the bombers and near Colombo’s zoo.
Sri Lank’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Associated Press that more bombers are still at large, and “may go out for a suicide attack.”
Perfectly sums up what the world is up against. Not only does she have no qualms of killing herself, he kids are totally dispensable also. Golda Meir was totally spot on about them hating everyone more than loving their kids.
ReplyDeleteAnd the filthy traitorous socialist America and Jew hating DemonRats,want to bring in tens of millions more of these Muslim murderous poisonous snakes.
ReplyDeleteSchumer,Pelosi ,schiff,nadler and the rest of the traitorous filthy demonrats should all be hanging from the gallows