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2026-09-22 · Aljazeera

Sri Lanka court convicts 14 over deadly Easter bombings

Sri Lanka’s High Court has convicted 14 of the 24 men accused of being directly involved in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, which killed 279 people. The three-judge bench read out its decision on Tuesday after a five-year trial and said sentencing would take place later, the AFP news agency reported. The charges included murder and conspiracy to commit terrorism. Nine others were acquitted, while another defendant was found guilty of only some of the charges, the court said.

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