Three minutes’ silence held ahead of reopening of parliament as questions swirl as to whether attacks were preventable
This from the Guardian’s South Asia correspondent, who is in Negombo, Sri Lanka. The Easter Sunday attacks that killed more than 320 people in Sri Lanka were a response to the mass shooting at a mosque in Christchurch in March, Sri Lanka’s minister of state for defence has told the country’s parliament.
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