COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Four Sri Lankan Muslim ministers who resigned from their Cabinet portfolios after the Easter Day attacks that killed more than 250 people have rejoined the government after an investigation cleared them of having any links with the local Islamic militant groups that carried out the bombings.
The ministers took their oaths before President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday night, according to a statement from the president's office.
The four were among nine Cabinet and junior ministers who stepped down last month from their posts to enable the government to investigate allegations that some of them had links to the extremists who carried out the deadly Easter attacks.