defence minister resigns over sri lanka bombings

The Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando steped out his post. He has announced his resignation on Friday. He is the only secretary took  responsibility for the suicide bomb attacks on the country last Sunday. Fernando told Reuters that while there had been no failure on his own part, he was taking responsibility for failures of some institutions he headed as the secretary of defence.He said that security agencies were actively responding to intelligence they had about the possibility of attacks before they were launched."We were working on that. All those agencies were working on that," he said.The Easter Sunday bombings on churches and luxury hotels killed at least 359 people and wounded around 500 others. Here, the Department of Foreign Affairs is advising people to avoid non-essential travel to Sri Lanka following the weekend bombings.