Shooting breaks out in eastern Sri Lankan town during police raid

Sri Lankan police are trying to track down 140 people believed linked to Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday  suicide bombings that killed 253 , as shooting erupted in the east during a raid.A military spokesman said there was an explosion in Ampara Sainthamaruthu near Batticaloa and when soldiers went to investigate they were fired upon Read more »

Sri Lanka seeks divine help to end power crisis

Sri Lanka’s state energy provider sought divine intervention Thursday to break a crippling power shortage, dispatching envoys to the country’s north to offer holy water to a tree sacred to Buddhists.. Pots of water blessed by monks were sent by motorcade to the Bodi, believed to have grown from a sampling of an older tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment more than 2,500 years ago. Read more »

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