Two former Sri Lanka officials sentenced to death for negligence in deadly Easter bombings

A court in Sri Lanka found the former police chief guilty of criminal negligence related to bomb attacks on Easter Sunday in 2019 that killed over 260 people. He was sentenced to death for failing to prevent the attacks. The case centers on whether he bore responsibility for the security failures that allowed the bombings to occur.

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