BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka—The eight men and one woman who detonated bombs on Easter Sunday, killing themselves and more than 250 others, were a collection of Islamist radicals including a quiet truck driver and a foreign-educated engineer. Sri Lankan authorities released the names of the suicide bombers—ranging from the poor and uneducated to the wealthy and worldly, originally gathered into two different Islamist organizations—after completing DNA tests to confirm their identities.
Source: Wall Street Journal May 01, 2019 21:11 UTC