The toll in a series of eight blasts targeting mostly churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Sunday has risen to 290, a police spokesman said Monday.
More than 500 people were wounded in the blasts, he added, in the deadliest violence since the end of the country’s long-running civil war a decade ago.
Sri Lankan authorities have arrested 24 people in connection with the multiple blasts that rocked the island nation on Sunday, killing over 290 people.