Lanka says former spy chief ‘directed’ Easter bombings

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Sri Lanka's public security minister told parliament on Wednesday 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. 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