IS claims 3 militants who blew up during Sri Lanka raid

AMPARA, Sri Lanka (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed three of the militants killed in a shootout with police in eastern Sri Lanka.
In a statement published early Sunday by the extremists’ Aamaq news agency, IS gave their noms du guerre as Abu Hammad, Abu Sufyan and Abu al-Qa’qa.
It says they opened fire with automatic weapons and “after exhausting their ammunition, detonated on them their explosive belts.”
IS falsely claimed their militants killed 17 “