Calm returns to mob-hit Sri Lankan towns

Updated March 9 2018 - 10:22pm, first published 10:20pm
A Sri Lankan police officer investigates a burnt shop in Kandy where 10 people have been arrested.
A Sri Lankan police officer investigates a burnt shop in Kandy where 10 people have been arrested.

Calm has begun to return to violence-hit Muslim neighbourhoods in Sri Lanka's Kandy region, with many shops reopening as army reinforcements largely put an end to Buddhist mob attacks that hit the area.

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