Man killed as Easter attacks backlash escalates in SL, 13 arrested

Parts of Sri Lanka were under indefinite curfew on Tuesday and social media off limits after a man was killed by sword-wielding rioters in an escalating anti-muslim backlash following the Easter terror attacks.

Violence broke out on Monday, three weeks after bombings killed 258 people, with rampaging mobs carrying out arson attacks and 2,000 people vandalising a mosque, witnesses said.

Police said on Tuesday that 13 people had been arrested, including Amith Weerasinghe, a man from Sri Lanka’s majority Buddhist Sinhalese community on bail for his role in similar riots in March last year in the central Kandy district.

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