Sri Lankan police on Friday arrested five suspects, allegedly having links with local Islamist group National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ) and its leader Zahran Cassim, the mastermind behind the Easter Sunday bombings. The five suspects were arrested from the north central region of Horowpothana on the day when the Parliament extended the state of emergency with 22 lawmakers voting for it and eight Tamil National Alliance members voting against it.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena Wednesday announced to extend by a month the state of emergency imposed in the wake of the deadly Easter Sunday bombings that killed nearly 260 people.
