Lanka Easter attack leader Zahran Hashim died in hotel bombing: Sirisena

<strong>Colombo:</strong> Sri Lankan Islamist extremist Zahran Hashim, said to be the top leader of an IS linked local militant group that carried out the Easter Sunday bombings, died in the blast at the Shangri-La hotel, President Maithripala Sirisena said Friday. Hashim, the head of extremist group National Tawheed Jamath (NTJ),

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