translated from Spanish: Sri Lanka reduced to 253 the number of fatalities by attacks

The Ministry of health of Sri Lanka reported Thursday that the number of fatalities caused by the series of terrorist attacks that suffered the Asian country last Sunday passed 359 to 253, more than one hundred less than those reported previously. Authorities explained that this happened because of the difficulty involved have mutilated bodies.
“Day of today, the number of dead in the terrorist attack on Sunday has been revised to 253, and no 359 as had been previously reported”, said the director of the Communications Department of the Ministry, Prasanna Adikari. According to Adikari, the previous count has been corrected “following the complicated process of accounting for the bodies in the morgue of Colombo”.
On the other hand, the Vice-Minister of defence, Ruwan Wijewardene, attributed the discrepancy to the erroneous information provided by morgues. The director-general of health, Anil Jasinghe, told the Reuters agency that these figures should always be taken as approximations. “They can be 250 or 260. I can not tell exactly. There are many parts of bodies and is difficult to give an exact figure,”said.
Warnings for this weekend
Meanwhile, the country’s religious leaders canceled the public prayers amid new warnings of possible terrorist attacks. In an unusually specific report, the United States Embassy warned that places of worship could be attacked this weekend by extremists. The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe, also said that there are still terrorists fled, and that these could have explosives that would seek to make new “suicide attacks”.
“We have captured many suspects, but still have active cells. They might have explosives, we need them to find,”Wickremesinghe told agency AP. The Sri Lankan Government linked the attack, claimed by the State Islamic (EI), to the little known terrorist group local Islamist dyes National Thowheeth Jamath (NTJ), although he warned about possible foreign links.
For his part, the Secretary of Defense, Hemasiri Fernando, resigned for security bugs, although he insisted that the authorities were working on some security alerts that did them get the intelligence services of India. “We were in it, all the agencies were in that,” he said Thursday.

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