Sri Lanka’s president to look into bombing claims made in UK TV programme

Some 269 people were killed in attacks on Easter Sunday 2019 (Eranga Jayawardena/AP)

Sri Lanka’s president has said he will appoint a committee chaired by a retired supreme court judge to investigate allegations made in a UK television report that the South Asian country’s intelligence was complicit in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people.

The attacks, which included simultaneous suicide bombings, targeted three churches and three tourist hotels. The dead included 42 foreigners from 14 countries.