Indian armed forces said on Sunday they raided three suspects’ houses linked to the Easter Sunday blasts in Sri Lanka, concerning some 15 people who left New Delhi in order to rejoin ISIS, militant Islamic States outfit, after one week of the terror attack that claimed the lives of more than 250 people.
According to Reuters news reports, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) stated it had carried out raids at the houses of three suspected people in the southern state of Kerela, India, which is located near to the tip of the Indian peninsula, close to Sri Lankan island.
In an official statement, the NIA said, “These persons are suspected to have links with some of the accused persons in the said case who had exited India to join the proscribed terrorist organization ISIS/Daish.”
The Indian investigators recovered SIM cards, mobile phones, digital storage devices, also including DVDs and CDs of radical ISIS preacher Zakir Naik, as well as, diaries with handwritten notes in Arabic and Malayalam, the NIA said.
“Compared to the large Islamic population, the percentage of people is a very small number, not at all a significant number,” a senior Indian police official told Reuters.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has on Saturday banned two terrorist organizations suspected to be linked with Easter Sunday’s suicide bombing attacks in churches and hotels that claimed the lives of more than 250 people, including 500 wounded.
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