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Sri Lanka Declares Emergency Amid Buddhist Attacks On Minority Muslims

The violence, which began on Sunday, was reportedly triggered by a road-rage incident in which a Sinhalese Buddhist driver was beaten to death by a Muslim youth.
A Sri Lankan man rides his bicycle past a burnt vehicle on Wednesday, a day after anti-Muslim riots erupted in Digana, a suburb of Kandy.

Mobs made up mostly of Sri Lanka's predominately Buddhist Sinhalese majority torched Muslim homes and businesses in the island-nation's central hills near Kandy, a day after the government imposed a state of emergency to quell days of violence.

As NPR's Julie McCarthy reports tensions between the two communities, which burst into

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