London police are asking for images taken during the terrorist attack in Sri Lanka.
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Acting Commander Alexis Boon said Tuesday that counter-terrorism police want to look at any images and footage taken before, during or after the bombings.
The Metropolitan Police dispatched a small team of specialist officers from the Counter Terrorism Command to Sri Lanka to support families who lost loved ones and to help with repatriation of their remains.
The officers are gathering information that might be useful during coroners' investigations.
Boon also is asking for witnesses to the attacks to contact police on a confidential basis.
The news of British police involvement comes after Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe suggested authorities had received warnings but "not enough attention had been paid".
There are reports that both Indian and US intelligence had warned the country about a threat of attack in early April.
Sri Lanka's capital Colombo was tense on Tuesday as the military took on emergency war-time powers, allowing them to conduct searches without a warrant and to detain suspects for up to two weeks before a court hearing. These powers haven't been used since the end of Sri Lanka's civil war.
The Islamic State group has made a series of unsupported claims of responsibility for past attacks.
- AP