Toll in Sri Lanka blasts rises to 310: police spokesman

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Security personnel stand guard outside St. Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo on April 23, 2019, two days after the church was hit in a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. – Sri Lanka on April 23 imposed a state of emergency hours after the government blamed a local Islamist group for a series of suicide bomb blasts that killed at least 310 people, including dozens of foreigners. (Photo by Mohd RASFAN / AFP)

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) — The toll from a string of deadly suicide bomb attacks in Sri Lanka has risen to 310, with several people dying of their injuries overnight, a police spokesman said Tuesday.

Around 500 people were wounded in the blasts, Ruwan Gunasekera said in a statement.

He added that 40 people were now under arrest in connection with the attacks, which Sri Lanka’s government has blamed on a previously little-known local Islamist group, National Thowheeth Jama’ath.

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