Sri Lanka votes for president in shadow of Easter Sunday attack
Sri Lankans are going to the polls to choose their new leader, seven months after a devastating terror attack killed more than 250 people.
The attack by Islamic State militants, which targeted churches and top-end hotels, left at least 253 people dead. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was in power when thousands of people - particularly Tamils - went missing in what have been described as enforced disappearances between 2005 and 2015.
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