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Mass funerals for Sri Lanka victims

Victims are buried as IS says its members carried out Easter Sunday attacks

The first funerals have been held for those killed in the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka. A mass burial was held at St Sebastian's church in Negombo, north of the capital, Colombo. Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith has been attending funerals and comforting survivors. He says he would not have allowed Easter Mass to go ahead if he had been aware of the intelligence that the attacks were being planned.

Also in the programme: our correspondent reports from the frontline in Libya and we have an interview with the young Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg.

(Picture: A woman reacts during a mass burial of victims at a cemetery near St Sebastian church in Negombo, Sri Lanka. Credit: REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha)

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Tue 23 Apr 201913:06GMT

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