The Maldivian Embassy in Sri Lanka has asked residents in Kandy of Sri Lanka to exercise extreme caution during the ongoing state of emergency.

The embassy asked, through a series of tweets tagging Ambassador Mohamed Shareef's account, residents in Kandy to refrain from traveling about and going out of their homes unless absolutely necessary.

The embassy also asked residents there to abide by any directions given or procedures layed out by Sri Lankan authorities.

The Sri Lankan government imposed a state of emergency, for the first time since its civil war, for a 10-day period following violence between the Muslim and Singhalese Buddhist communities in Kandy.