Sri Lanka reimposes curfew amid arrests

: Sri Lankan police on Wednesday reimposed night curfews in vulnerable areas and arrested over 100 people in connection with the communal riots which targeted Muslim-owned businesses in the aftermath of the deadly Easter Sunday bombings.

Navin Dissanayake, minister of plantation industries, said during a government news conference about the security situation hat hardline Buddhist groups were likely to blame for the wave of anti-Muslim riots.

SUICIDE BOMBER’S WIFE DELIVERS THEIR BABY

The wife of a man who blew himself up at the St Anthony’s Church delivered their first baby, the Colombo magistrate’s court has been told. Alawddin Ahmed Muath, the 22-year-old law graduate, was one of the nine suicide bombers who carried out a series of coordinated attacks. During a court hearing on Tuesday, Muath’s 59-year-old father Ahmed Lebbe Alawddin informed chief magistrate Lanka Jayaratne that the bomber was the fourth of his five children. He was about to be enrolled into the Colombo Law College to further his law studies. Muath got married 14 months ago and his wife delivered their first baby on May 5, he told the judge.

TRAVEL BAN ON GRIEVING UK GROOM LIFTED

A Briton whose bride died on their honeymoon two days after arriving in Sri Lanka will be allowed to return home after a court lifted a travel ban on Wednesday. Khilan Chandaria was expected to leave Sri Lanka on Thursday following a magistrate’s decision to put off a full inquest into the death of Usheila Patel, 31, until August.

The travel ban was lifted as Chandaria was not regarded as a suspect in the death of his wife.