Al Qaeda ALWAYS invents a new group to take responsibility. AQ NEVER has openly taken responsibility, not until months or years or later, to the best of my knowlege.
Assume AQ, assume multiple simultaneaus attacks, assume follow-on attacks aimed at first responders, until hard facts say otherwise.
Well it’s the Al Qaeda playbook and Lashkar-e-Toiba has executed from it before most recently in the 2006 Mumbai subway attacks.
You seeing anything about a sea component to this attack...I’ve seen a reprt of a boat being found with explosives and I heard a report of 4 dead terrorists on a beach.