As Sri Lanka mourns the deaths of hundreds in Sunday’s coordinated bombings, it has now come to light that intelligence officials had issued warning of a possible terror attack just ten prior to the bombings.

Agence France Presse reports:

The nature of the blasts was not immediately clear and there were no immediate claims of responsibility. But documents seen by AFP show that Sri Lanka’s police chief Pujuth Jayasundara issued an intelligence alert to top officers 10 days ago, warning that suicide bombers planned to hit “prominent churches”. “A foreign intelligence agency has reported that the NTJ (National Thowheeth Jama’ath) is planning to carry out suicide attacks targeting prominent churches as well as the Indian high commission in Colombo,” the alert said. TRENDING: BREAKING: 'At Least 10 Shots' Reportedly Fired at Police By Louisville Black Lives Matter Rioters — UPDATE... At Least Two Officers Shot (VIDEOS) The NTJ is a radical Muslim group in Sri Lanka that was linked last year to the vandalisation of Buddhist statues.

Similar stories have been reported by Hindustan Times, Daily Mail, and RT.

Aljazeera, however, jumps into cover-up mode by referencing past British mistreatment of certain groups and attacks against Muslims that were in retaliation for threats made against Buddhists: