About 250 people were killed in the bombings and 500 wounded

Sri Lanka has expelled 200 Muslim clerics after the suicide bombings that killed hundreds on Easter Sunday.

With churches closed again yesterday amid the heightened security since Islamist bombers struck services and three luxury hotels, a minister said that 600 foreign citizens who had overstayed their visas had been expelled. Among them were 200 Muslim clerics. The authorities are still investigating the local group behind the bombings which forged ties with the Islamic State before the attacks.

“We have reviewed the visas system and took a decision to tighten visa restrictions for religious teachers,” Vajira Abeywardena, the home affairs minister, told the AFP news agency.

The death toll from the attack has reached 257, with more than 500 wounded. The dead included eight Britons as