Sri Lanka: More arrests as death toll grows
24 April 2019 |
4:49 pm
Sri Lankan police detained 18 suspects in a string of raids over the bombings that hit the country on Easter Sunday. The government also said it had confirmed that dozens more had died in the attacks.
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