Also killed 3 of the arresting officers.
Abdul Latheef Mohamed Jameel, who was educated in Australia and Britain, was the only attacker out of the eight Sri Lankans pledging allegiance to Islamic State who failed to hit his intended target in the series of Easter Sunday attacks that killed at least 253, according to police.
Jameel, 37, was born in Kandy, the sixth child in a tea trading family of seven, according to interviews with three people who knew him well, all of whom declined to be named due to the ongoing police investigation. He was educated at the private Gampola International School in Kandy, a lush hilltown in the center of the country.
The family’s relative wealth allowed him to travel and live abroad. He studied engineering at Kingston University, southwest of London, for a year in 2006, according to two sources close to the family and two European intelligence officials. The university declined to comment on his time there.
He returned to Sri Lanka, where he married and had his first of four children, before moving to Australia for four years in 2009.
Returning to Sri Lanka again, he worked with his brother in the family tea business, but his relationship with relatives grew increasingly strained due to his religious views.
He was critical of secular education and once refused to allow his eldest son to attend a concert, saying that music was prohibited in Islam, according to one of his friends.
He later pulled his children from school, tutoring them at the family’s home in Wellampitiya, a suburb of Colombo. The house is near a copper factory owned by the family of two brothers who also detonated bombs on Sunday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sri-lanka-blasts-bomber/the-western-educated-bomber-who-botched-sri-lanka-hotel-attack-idUSKCN1S21PE
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Also killed 3 of the arresting officers.
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A police investigation is underway after a 15-year-old boy, who migrated to Pakistan from the US, was abducted and raped at gunpoint.
The teenager, who holds a dual nationality Pakistani-American passport, had arrived to the country more than a year ago to study at a private school in Rawalpindi - a city in the Punjab province of the country.
Police commenced legal proceedings after the boy was sexually assaulted in an abandoned area of the city.
According to police, the victim had been shopping at Saddar, a commercial hub in the city, on April 19 when he ran into the three perpetrators.
The three suspects led him into an abandoned car park under the ruse of getting ice cream.
The perpetrators then took him to another abandoned area, where they took it in turns to assault the young boy.
The assault was also filmed.
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The bodies of 15 people, including six children, were discovered at the site of a fierce overnight gun battle on the east coast of Sri Lanka, a military spokesman said on Saturday, six days after Muslims killed more than 250 Easter Worshipers.
The shootout between troops and Islamists erupted on Friday evening.
A police spokesman said that three suspected suicide bombers were among the 15 Muslims found dead after the shoot-out.
Military spokesman Sumith Atapattu said in a statement that as troops headed towards the Muslim "safe house" three explosions were triggered and gunfire began.
“Troops retaliated and raided the safe house where a large cache of explosives had been stored,” he said in a statement. Bomb-making materials, gelignite sticks and metal shrapnel were found, the military said.
Police have detained at least 76 Islamists, including Muslims from Syria and Egypt, so far. Twenty Muslims were arrested in the past 24 hours alone.
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