The BBC reports that the High Court in Colombo found 14 defendants guilty on all charges and one guilty on only some charges, and acquitted nine others. Al Jazeera reports fifteen guilty verdicts in the 2019 Easter bombings. AFP, via the BBC, said the attacks killed 279 people, including 45 foreigners. The BBC reported 270 killed. Those counts are not collapsed into one number.
The BBC says the High Court in Colombo found 14 defendants guilty on all charges and one guilty on only some charges, and acquitted nine others. Prosecutors identified Mohamed Naufar, also reported as Naufer Moulavi, among those convicted on every charge. The judges said sentencing would come later on Tuesday. Al Jazeera's account of the same day is that fifteen people were found guilty.[1], [2]
AFP, as carried by the BBC, said the 2019 attacks killed 279 people, including 45 foreigners. The BBC itself reported 270 killed and more than 500 injured. Al Jazeera describes the bombings as the deadliest attacks in the country since the civil war ended in 2009, without supplying a third toll in the lede used here. A single blended number would hide a conflict the BBC already prints.[1]
The BBC says sentencing was still ahead on the day of the verdicts. Other outlets have published long prison terms and confiscation orders. Those prison terms and confiscation orders stay out of this account. The established news is the guilty findings, the acquittals, and a death toll that the BBC's own page does not reduce to one figure.[1], [2]
