Sri Lanka impose emergency under prevention of terrorism Regulations with effect from Monday night; declares Tuesday as a National Day of Mourning in view of Sunday’s bomb attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sri Lankan government has \nimposed emergency provisions under terrorism prevention from Monday \nnight and sought international help to probe into foreign support for \nthe attacks held on Sunday. The decision of emergency was taken at \nmeeting of the National Security Council to empower the security forces \nand to ensure public security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The meeting also decided to \ndeclare Tuesday as a national day of mourning. The security situation \nremains tense as a van carrying explosives was diffused near the Colombo\n church, which faced attack on Sunday.Another explosive detonators were \nrecovered in a market area as security agencies keep frisking sensitive \nareas to thwart repetition of attacks yesterday which killed around 300 \npeople. Most of the shops and business establishments in Colombo and \nother areas remain closed and night curfew will be in place from 8 PM to\n 4 AM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier, the government said that a local religious group \nNational Tawheed Jamaath is behind the attacks but such a small local \ngroup cannot organise attacks at such a level. Addressing a press \nconference, cabinet minister and government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne \nsaid the international support behind the attacks is being investigated \nand they are trying to ascertain how suicide bombers were prepared.The \nminister said there were inputs from international intelligence agencies\n earlier warning of such suicide attacks and expressed regret that it <\/p>\n\n\n\n
could\n not be avoided. The minister also added that a detailed security check \nout is being carried out at all sensitive places across the country as \nthere are inputs of more such attacks.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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