KNZ NEWS DESK
The toll in a series of eight blasts targeting mostly churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Sunday has risen to 290, a police spokesman said Monday.
More than 500 people were wounded in the blasts, he added, in the deadliest violence since the end of the country’s long-running civil war a decade ago.
Sri Lankan authorities have arrested 24 people in connection with the multiple blasts that rocked the island nation on Sunday.
Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said the number of arrests on the incidents have now gone up to 24.
