COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's police extended a curfew across two popular coastal resorts Sunday to contain religious riots that left at least 41 people wounded and heightened tensions between Muslims and Buddhists.
At one point elite police commandos were called upon to rescue a deputy minister who had been trying to bring the rioting to an end.
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