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Toll in Sri Lanka blasts rises to 310: police spokesman
COLOMBO, April 23, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – The toll from a string of deadly
suicide bomb attacks in Sri Lanka has risen to 310, with several people dying
of their injuries overnight, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
Around 500 people were wounded in the blasts, Ruwan Gunasekera said in a
statement.
He added that 40 people were now under arrest in connection with the
attacks, which Sri Lanka’s government has blamed on a previously little-known
local Islamist group, National Thowheeth Jama’ath.
BSS/AFP/MSY/1019 hrs