*KERALA: Indian police on Sunday raided houses of three suspects inconnection with a case of 15 people who left India to join the militantIslamic State (IS) group.*
After a week of disastrous bombings in Sri Lanka that killed more than 250,the National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India said it carried outsearches at three houses in the southern state of Kerala.
It is pertinent to note that the responsibility of the coordinated suicideblasts was claimed by the IS.
“These persons are suspected to have links with some of the accused personsin the said case who had exited India to join the proscribed terroristorganisation ISIS/Daish,” the NIA said in a statement.
Last week, a top Sri Lankan military source said that the leader of theNational Thowheed Jamaath, Zahran Hashim, is believed to be the mastermindbehind the Sunday Easter attacks in Sri Lanka, who spent “substantial” timein “south India.”
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According to The Hindulink,Hashim was identified as the leader of the extremist NTJ by theinvestigators, who, they said, “had executed the highly coordinated blastson Sunday.”
Following the deadly blasts, the Islamic State claimed responsibility forthe attacks and subsequently released an image of eight suspected bombers.
Sri Lankan investigation agencies have claimed to identify nine suicidebombers, including a woman. “We are looking into the IS angle. We alsosuspect that some of those radical youth were indoctrinated and trained inIndia, possibly Tamil Nadu,” the Indian website wrote quoting a senior SriLankan official.
