<p>Sri Lankan government will expedite the ongoing probe of Easter Sunday suicide bombings that killed 258 people, including 11 Indians, last year, a senior Cabinet minister said on Saturday.</p>.<p>Nine suicide bombers, belonging to local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) linked to ISIS, carried out a series of blasts that tore through three churches and as many luxury hotels in Sri Lanka, killing 258 people and injuring over 500 on April 21, 2019.</p>.<p>"Sri Lankan government will expedite the ongoing probe of Easter Sunday suicide bombing. I will meet the Attorney General on Monday to see how we could proceed," Sarath Weerasekera, the minister of public security, told Parliament.</p>.<p>He was reacting to an Opposition lawmaker charging that the current government appeared not interested now to carry on with the probe.</p>.<p>Niroshan Perera, the Opposition member told parliament, that the head of the local Catholic Church Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith had just a few days ago had expressed doubt if the investigations were leading nowhere.</p>.<p>Ranjith said if the current government showed no genuine interest in the investigations to see its conclusion the Catholic minority would lose confidence in the government.</p>.<p>Assuring there was no attempt to sweep the investigation under the carpet, Weerasekera said the legal process would be expedited from next week.</p>.<p>Weerasekera said 257 people have been arrested and 86 of them are currently under detention orders while 172 are in remand custody.</p>
<p>Sri Lankan government will expedite the ongoing probe of Easter Sunday suicide bombings that killed 258 people, including 11 Indians, last year, a senior Cabinet minister said on Saturday.</p>.<p>Nine suicide bombers, belonging to local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) linked to ISIS, carried out a series of blasts that tore through three churches and as many luxury hotels in Sri Lanka, killing 258 people and injuring over 500 on April 21, 2019.</p>.<p>"Sri Lankan government will expedite the ongoing probe of Easter Sunday suicide bombing. I will meet the Attorney General on Monday to see how we could proceed," Sarath Weerasekera, the minister of public security, told Parliament.</p>.<p>He was reacting to an Opposition lawmaker charging that the current government appeared not interested now to carry on with the probe.</p>.<p>Niroshan Perera, the Opposition member told parliament, that the head of the local Catholic Church Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith had just a few days ago had expressed doubt if the investigations were leading nowhere.</p>.<p>Ranjith said if the current government showed no genuine interest in the investigations to see its conclusion the Catholic minority would lose confidence in the government.</p>.<p>Assuring there was no attempt to sweep the investigation under the carpet, Weerasekera said the legal process would be expedited from next week.</p>.<p>Weerasekera said 257 people have been arrested and 86 of them are currently under detention orders while 172 are in remand custody.</p>