COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's military launched a major hunt on Saturday for remnants of an Islamist group which carried out the Easter suicide bombings that killed 258 people, officials said.
"Special cordon-and-search operations are under way in three areas just outside Colombo," a military official told reporters. Security forces have arrested scores of suspects in connection with the bombings and over what appeared to be organised violence against the island's Muslim minority.
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