Sri Lanka to declare conditional state of emergency following terror attacks
Posted on April 22nd, 2019

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia

Colombo, April 22 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lanka’s National Security Council has announced that a conditional state of emergency will be declared from tonight, midnight, following the deadly attacks which ripped through Sri Lanka on Sunday.

The Sri Lanka government said they will also re-impose an islandwide night-time police curfew starting from 8.00pm Monday till 4.00am Tuesday.

A curfew was imposed on Sunday afternoon following the bombings in Sri Lanka which has so far killed 290 people. The curfew was lifted at dawn on Monday.

Meanwhile Health Minister, Rajitha Senaratnne said that the local Thawheed Jamaat was behind the deadly blasts and investigations were ongoing to see if they had any foreign links.

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