National Thowheed Jamath - the extremist group blamed for deadly bombings at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka - is a local branch of ISIS, a security expert says
A radical Islamic group blamed for a series of suicide bombings that killed almost 300 people and injured about 500 others in Sri Lanka was a local branch of ISIS, it is claimed.
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