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Zahran Hashim

Zahran Hashim

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Mohamed Hashim Mohamed Zahran, known as Zahran Hashim or Hashem, was a Sri Lankan Islamist militant and the founder of the National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ). He was identified by Sri Lankan authorities as well as international intelligence bodies as the mastermind behind the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, a series of coordinated suicide attacks on churches and hotels that killed 269 people and injured approximately 500. He was one of the two suicide bombers in the Shangri-La Hotel, one of the attack's target.

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