2019 Easter bombings: Sri Lanka says ex-spy chief 'directed' attack that killed 279 people, Sallay denies

Sri Lanka's public security minister Wednesday stated that the nation's ex-intelligence chief directed the 2019 Easter Sunday attack, in the first official statement linking him directly to the bombings that killed 279 people. Giving details, Minister Ananda Wijepala said Major General Suresh Sallay, who was arrested in February on accusations of "aiding and abetting" the attack, had identified a Catholic church to be bombed.