Soldiers stand guard during a curfew after an overnight gun battle, between troops and suspected Islamist militants, on the east coast of Sri Lanka, in Kalmunai on Saturday. (Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)Authorities banned women from wearing face veils under an emergency law put in place after the deadly attacks. "They [the group] were small enough that they were not using normal communications, instead meeting each other," Wickremesinghe told Reuters. In India, police said they had raided the homes of three people in the southern state of Kerala, close to Sri Lanka, in connection with their links to Islamic State. They did not say if there was any connection to the attacks in Sri Lanka.

Source: CBC News April 29, 2019 09:43 UTC