Sri Lanka lifts curfew as death toll from attacks rises sharply, 27 arrested

Scores of people who were stranded overnight at the main airport began making their way home as restrictions were lifted. (Courtesy)

Authorities lifted a curfew in the Sri Lanka on Monday, a day after 290 people were killed and about 500 wounded by a string of bombings that tore through churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday.

There was still no claim of responsibility for the attacks on two churches and four hotels in and around Colombo, the capital of predominantly Buddhist Sri Lanka, and a third church on the country's northeast coast.