Sri Lanka imposes curfew after mobs target mosques

Action taken following days of attacks on places of worship and Muslim-owned shops

Sri Lanka imposed a country-wide curfew after successive days of mob attacks on mosques and Muslim-owned shops in three districts.

Facebook and WhatsApp have also been banned as the government seeks to quell the unrest in the aftermath of the Easter Sunday bombings last month, which killed more than 250 people including in three churches.

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