Sri Lanka lifts state of emergency
The Sri Lankan government has lifted the state of emergency imposed after recent violent clashes.
The Foreign Office has updated its advice to British tourists to say the state of emergency was lifted on Saturday, but still advises travellers to ‘exercise caution, avoid protests and rallies, and follow the advice of the local authorities’.
The state of emergency was imposed two weeks ago.
A few days afterwards, tourists were told it was safe to return to Kandy after a curfew that followed violent outbreaks in the Sri Lankan city was lifted.
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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