According to the recent reports of Times of India (TOI), the police curfew has been re-imposed on the Kandy district of Sri Lanka has but it will not disrupt the Nidahas Trophy, a T20I tri-series also featuring India and Bangladesh, which gets underway in the country’s capital Colombo today.

Sri Lanka imposed a curfew on Monday on the central hill station town popular with tourists after days of communal crisis that saw a man killed and Muslim businesses set on fire. On Tuesday, a government official said that Sri Lanka has declared a state of emergency for 10 days to rein in the spread of communal violence a day after Buddhists and Muslims clashed in Kandy.

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Hours before the tri-series is set to begin with hosts Sri Lanka playing the Indian cricket team at the R Premadasa Stadium, the BCCI media manager told reporters in Colombo: “The situation in the picture is Kandy and not Colombo. This is to notify everyone that after talking to concerned security personnel, we have understood that the situation is completely normal in Colombo. If at all there is any update on the same we shall notify.”

A source in Colombo told TOI Sports that there was nothing to worry about in regards to the tri-series being changed. The 2018 Nidahas Trophy runs from March 6 to 18 in Sri Lanka.

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Sri Lanka’s Minister for Sport to news agency Reuters, he said, “At a special cabinet meeting, it was decided to declare a state of emergency for 10 days to prevent the spread of communal riots to other parts of the country. It was also decided to take stern action against people who are instigating violence through Facebook.”