Sri Lanka emergency: FB blocked, Buddhists torch mosques; 10 developments

A Buddhist mob set ablaze a Muslim man's shop and attacked a Mosque in Ampara, as violence continues unabated in Sri Lanka despite an emergency. United Nations under-secretary-general Jeffery Feltman will visit Sri Lanka to take stock of the situation in the island country after the president, Maithripala Sirisena declared an emergency. He will meet religious leaders there this week, a UN spokesperson said.

Police had to fire tear gas shells at a mob in after two cops were wounded in an overnight clash in riot-hit Kandy.
Sri Lankan parliament's Chief Opposition Whip Anura Kumara Dissanayake has hit out at the government, saying that the emergency is a tactic to divert people's attention from more pressing issues and to suppress people's fight for their rights.

However, the presidential decree hasn't been able to stop all violence as a mosque and a Muslim shop have been burnt.