Arrests in Sri Lanka
Summary
- What Arrests in Sri Lanka All coverage, oldest first ↓
- First reported 4 November 2026 lankanewspapers.com ↗
- Arrested Reports differ on how many people were arrested: more than 400 (1 report), 208 (1 report). lankanewspapers.com ↗
- Figures No figure has been confirmed by two independent reports yet. Sources ↓
- Coverage 3 independent reports from 2 publishers All coverage, oldest first ↓
- Latest report 6 November 2026 tamilguardian.com ↗
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The figures over time
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Who reported it
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What the reports establish
Reports differ on how many people were arrested: more than 400 (1 report), 208 (1 report).
Show the sources and why
Each figure comes from a single report.
more than 400 · 1 independent report · undecided
Only one report gives it
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More than 400 people were arrested, according to a source the report names.
lankanewspapers.com · · Read the sentence in the original ↗
208 · 1 independent report · undecided
Only one report gives it
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208 people were arrested, according to the Police Media Spokesperson.
lankanewspapers.com · · Read the sentence in the original ↗
All coverage, oldest first
Each report links to the original. Copies of the same text (a wire story run by several sites) are grouped under the first.
- Lanka Newspapers lankanewspapers.com First reported
- Lanka Newspapers lankanewspapers.com
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tamilguardian.com
tamilguardian.com
Latest report
Also run by 1 other site
- tamilguardian.com 30 hours ago