Sri Lanka police chief arrested over Easter attacks failures

[TomSea]

Sri Lanka police chief arrested over Easter attacks failures
AFP, Colombo Tuesday, 2 July 2019

Sri Lankan police arrested their top commander and a former defense chief on Tuesday over their alleged failures to prevent the Easter Sunday bombings that killed 258 people, spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said.

He said Inspector-General Pujith Jayasundara and former defense secretary Hemasiri Fernando were arrested a day after the attorney general said their failure to heed security warnings amounted to a crime against humanity.

Both men were at different hospitals undergoing treatment when detectives arrested them, Gunasekera said, adding the move followed instructions from Attorney General Dappula de Livera who said they could press murder charges.

Read more at: https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2019/07/02/Sri-Lanka-police-chief-arrested-over-Easter-attacks-failures.html