Employess wait for customers inside a shop owned by a Muslim businessman in Batticalao, Sri Lanka, May 6, 2019. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
RATHMALYAYA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - N.K. Masliya says she has been visiting a neighbourhood clinic in the northwestern Sri Lankan village of Rathmalyaya for over five years, always dressed in a black abaya - a cloak-like over-garment worn by some Muslim women.
But when Masliya went to the clinic nearly three weeks after Islamic militants killed over 250 people in churches and hotels across the country, she said things had changed.
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