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Your Tuesday Morning Brief

1. Senior DIG C.D. Wickremeratne was appointed as the acting IGP last morning (April 29) while Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara was sent on compulsory leave.
2. Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa notes that Sri Lanka can handle the current crisis on its own.
3. Police Terrorist Investigation Unit arrested the imam who motivated the prime suspect of the Sunday Easter attack Mohamed Zahran.
4. During an inspection of an Arabic College in Dummalasuriya, Kuliyapitiya, the attention of the special forces drew their attention to cuts and bruises on a coconut tree at height of 4-4 1/2 metres.
5. Security forces including the police and Sri Lanka Army conducted special search operations in Kalmunai, Saindamaruthu and other surrounding villages.
6. President Maithripala Sirisena appointed General Shantha Kottegoda,

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   as the Secretary of Defence.
7. His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith stated that the Prime Minister should amend the existing laws rather than introduce new laws.
8. National Thowheed Jamath Colombo district organizer Mohammad Farook Mohammad Fawaz, is to be detained for 72 hours for investigations related to terrorist activities.
9. The elder brother of the suicide bombers Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed Ilham Ahmed and Mohamed Ibrahim Infaaz Ahmed has been arrested during a search operation carried out at Mahawila park in Dematagoda.
10. A special transport strategy following the Easter attack: Drivers and conductors armed with new security instruction.

We overcame the 30-year war and the devastating tsunami. We will overcome the Easter Sunday tragedy. WE WILL REBOUND!