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Hello, I'm Tina Dehealy.

This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4, the space to ask one big question about one big story.

Today, what does Sri Lanka tell us about the future of Islamic State?

Normally, when something terrible happens you reach for social media to find out what's going on,

to get updates to find out who's responsible.

Well that wasn't the case for people in Sri Lanka on

Sunday after six suicide bomber struck hotels and churches across the

country killing more than 350 people. They've had to deal with the trauma in an information blackout

after the government shut down all social media. We're going to talk about the links

to IS and who was responsible later.

But if it is them, this is their most deadly attack.

Virginia Videnarthen has been in Sri Lanka reporting for the BBC. She went to Bata Kalea where a church was targeted.

Hello.

Regina, hi, Regina, hi, it's Tina. I caught up with her. Hello. Security is very, very high here.

So in a moment I'm probably going to have to get out and

they're going to search my suitcase and all of that.

I mean, it's very, very high security.

How are you? I'm just a bit tired and emotional to be honest Tina. I've covered a lot of natural

disasters and terror attacks and horror in my career but it doesn't make you immune to the facts and I've you know spent the

last however many days speaking to people who've gone through

unimaginable grief on almost every street corner in Bataklo were large posters, memorial posters for the victims,

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