87 bomb detonators found at Colombo bus station

22 April 2019, 10:39 AM

UPDATED 22 April 2019, 17:31 PM

By AFP, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Security officers guard the road to the president’s house in Colombo, after bomb blasts ripped through churches and luxury hotels on Easter, in Sri Lanka, on April 22, 2019. Photo: Reuters/ Dinuka Liyanawatte

Sri Lankan police on Monday said they had found 87 bomb detonators at a Colombo bus station, a day after a string of attacks on churches and hotels that killed nearly 300 people.

A statement said police found the detonators at the Bastian Mawatha Private bus stand, 12 of them scattered on the ground and another 75 in a garbage dump nearby.