What we know about the bombings
Nearly 300 people, including eight Britons, have died after a series of bombings in Sri Lanka.
Here is what we know so far:
l Six nearly simultaneous explosions at three churches and three hotels took place at Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa on Easter Sunday.
l In Colombo, St Anthony’s Shrine and the Cinnamon Grand, Shangri-la and Kingsbury hotels were targeted in the first wave of explosions.
l Other blasts were reported at St Sebastian’s Church in Negombo – a majority Catholic town north of Colombo – and at Zion Church in the eastern town of Batticaloa.
l Three police officers were killed when they went to question suspects.
l There were two further explosions later at a guesthouse in Dehiwala and near an overpass outskirts of Colombo.
l Another blast rocked a street near a church in Colombo yesterday as police attempted to defuse explosives in a vehicle used by the attackers.
l Officials have described it as a terrorist attack by religious extremists. Most of the blasts are suspected suicide attacks.
l Police will examine reports the intelligence community failed to detect or warn of possible suicide attacks.
l Eight Britons, including two people holding joint US and British nationalities, are among the 290 people dead.
l British lawyer Anita Nicholson, 42, her son Alex, 14, and daughter Annabel, 11, were killed. Three children of Scotland’s biggest landowner, Anders Holch Povlsen, have also died.
l There are also US, Turkish, Indian, Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese victims among the 27 foreign nationals killed.
l More than 500 people have been injured.
l Twenty-four suspects have been arrested.
l A nationwide curfew was imposed from 6pm to 6am.