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Nationwide curfews, social media block in Sri Lanka after anti-Muslim riots
[DAWN] Sri Lanka imposed a nationwide six-hour night curfew and banned Facebook, WhatsApp and other social media platforms on Monday after anti-Moslem riots gripped several towns in the latest fallout from the Easter bombings.Christian groups attacked Moslem-owned shops in a sign of the ongoing religious tension in Sri Lanka since the April 21 attacks by jacket wallahs on three hotels and three churches which left 258 dead. A Moslem man was slashed to death, making him the first fatality in the riots, police said. The 45-year-old man died shortly after admission to a hospital in Puttalam district, a police official told AFP.
Posted by: Fred 2019-05-14 |
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