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Government and military sources said a Syrian man was being investigated for the devastating Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, as the toll continued to rise.
Police said they had found 87 bomb detonators at a Colombo bus station as authorities declared a state of emergency on Monday, following a string of deadly attacks.
A local Islamist extremist group called the National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ) is believed to be behind the deadly suicide bomb attacks in Sri Lanka that killed nearly 300 people.
Nearly 160 people were killed as deadly bombs ripped through churches holding Easter services and high-end hotels in Sri Lanka, including dozens of foreigners.
At least 26 security personnel were killed in an attack on an army base in Afghanistan on Sunday.
![Aung San Suu Kyi on journalists [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/large_16_9/public/media/images/C8121C1F-3336-4A7B-99E8-4A1A549C2432.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=DpNmhzpE "Aung San Suu Kyi on journalists [Getty]")
The election is just the second since the Southeast Asian nation emerged from nearly half a century of junta rule in 2011.
Comment: This is not the first time the demonisation of 'threatening' communities has prepared the way for slaughter, writes Robin Yassin-Kassab.
Pope Francis met Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday for keenly-awaited talks in a tour aimed at alleviating religious and ethnic hatred against of Muslim Rohingya.
Myanmar's draconian controls over its minority Rohingya Muslim population amount to "apartheid", Amnesty International said on Tuesday in a probe into the root causes of their mass exodus.
China has been accused of gross human rights violations committed against its Uighur Muslim population.