RABAT, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Morocco has provided intelligence tips that helped identify Sri Lanka attackers, local media reported on Wednesday.

"The Moroccan intelligence had played an important role in arresting the terrorists" involved in the attacks, citing an official at the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations, Morocco's counterterrorism body, Morocco's news site Hespress.com said.

A series of suicide bomb blasts targeted on Easter Sunday hotels and churches in Sri Lanka killing at least 359.

According to Sri Lankan police, nearly 60 people have been detained since the blasts.