Sri Lanka blasts toll climbs to 310
Tuesday 23/April/2019 - 02:33 PM
The death toll from the Easter Sunday suicide
bombings in Sri Lanka has risen to 310 and police say they have arrested 40
suspects, SBS reported Tuesday.
As a state of emergency took effect on Tuesday
giving the Sri Lankan military wartime powers, police spokesman Ruwan
Gunasekara confirmed the raised death toll.
President Maithripala Sirisena declared Tuesday a
day of mourning.
The six near-simultaneous attacks on three churches
and three luxury hotels and three related blasts later on Sunday were the South
Asian island nation's deadliest violence in a decade since a bitter civil war
ended.
