Authorities continue raiding the homes of suspects following the Easter Sunday bombings which killed more than 250 people.
Sri Lanka is still searching for dozens of terrorists as authorities conduct raids that have left children in the crossfire.
On Friday, the country's president said police were searching for 140 suspects thought to have links with the Islamic State terrorist group. The group has claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday bombings in hotels and churches, which left more than 250 people dead. But on Saturday Sky News reporter Neville Lazarus, who is in the capital Colombo, said that 80 of these suspects have been arrested and were being questioned., six of them children. The wife and daughter of a suspect were critically injured and are being treated in hospital.The raid took place at a suspected safe house in the east of the country and, as police approached, those inside opened fire and set off explosions.
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