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Bomb scare, suspicious vehicle rattle nervous Sri Lanka amid probe

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  • Bomb scare, suspicious vehicle rattle nervous Sri Lankan capital
  • Focus turns towards foreign groups supporting Sri Lankan bombers
  • Sixteen more people taken in for questioning
  • Others caught for visa offences in nationwide sweep
  • Pakistanis flee in fear of reprisals

Colombo | Sri Lankan authorities locked down the central bank and the road leading to the jittery capital's airport was shut briefly by a bomb scare on Thursday as more people were swept up in the search for those behind Easter Sunday bombings that killed 359.

Two bank officials told Reuters the street outside the building near the World Trade Centre in the capital, Colombo, was blocked to traffic before the security alert was lifted.

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