Churches attacked in Sri Lanka

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Two churches were attacked in Sri Lanka on Sunday amid inter-religious tension following the funeral of a Buddhist monk opposed to religious conversions, police said.

Mobs stormed into a Jehovah’s Witness hall and another church after services finished on Sunday in Puvakpitiya, about 60 kilometres east of Colombo, police said.

"The attackers damaged the furniture and window panes," a police spokesman in the area said by telephone. He said there were no immediate reports of casualties.

The latest violence came four days after 15 people were wounded during the cremation in Colombo of Gangodavila Soma, a controversial Buddhist monk opposed to proselytising who died of a heart attack earlier this month in Russia.

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