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The number of lives lost in Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday terror attacks rose to 359, authorities said early Wednesday.

Officials also revealed they’ve detained more suspects for planning and carrying out out the suicide bombings, bringing the total number of people detained to 58.

Police in the country believe several conspirators remain at-large and armed with explosive devices.

On Tuesday, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack. The Sri Lankan president also vowed to overhaul security forces in the country after it emerged that intelligence forces were told of the impending attack hours before it happened.

A gravedigger in the South Asian country, meanwhile, said he and his colleagues are busier now than they were during a decades-long war that ended in 2009.

With Post wires

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