{"id":103739,"date":"2020-06-20T15:19:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T22:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103739"},"modified":"2020-06-20T15:19:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T22:19:58","slug":"sri-lankas-easter-bombings-probe-is-at-final-stages-say-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/20\/sri-lankas-easter-bombings-probe-is-at-final-stages-say-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Easter bombings probe is at final stages, say police."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a class=\"auth-img lnk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/profile\/author\/Meera-Srinivasan-220\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" adaptive placeholder\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/th.thgim.com\/news\/international\/article17327244.ece\/alternates\/SQUARE_80\/Meera%20Srinivasanjpg\" alt=\"\" data-variant=\"SQUARE\" data-device-variant=\"\" data-src-template=\"https:\/\/th.thgim.com\/news\/international\/article17327244.ece\/BINARY\/thumbnail\/Meera%20Srinivasanjpg\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"auth-nm lnk\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/profile\/author\/Meera-Srinivasan-220\/\">Meera Srinivasan<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>200 suspects have been arrested; inquiry is now focusing on financial networks connecting suicide bombers; role of foreign groups suspected<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s probe into the April 2019<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/topic\/sri-lanka-easter-bombings\/\">&nbsp;Easter terror bombings&nbsp;<\/a>is in its final stages\u201d, authorities have said, while raising suspicion that the suicide bombers were funded by two foreign outfits\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Colombo Crime Division, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the Terrorism Investigation Department (TID), who are investigating the attacks of last summer, have arrested over 200 suspects since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/sri-lanka-catholic-church-forgives-easter-bombers\/article31324989.ece\">Sri Lanka Catholic church forgives Easter bombers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coordinated bomb blasts at three luxury hotels in Colombo and three churches in Colombo, nearby Negombo, and the eastern city of Batticaloa, were the deadliest attacks in Sri Lanka\u2019s post-war decade, claiming 279 lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meera Srinivasan 200 suspects have been arrested; inquiry is now focusing on financial networks connecting suicide bombers; role of foreign groups suspected Sri Lanka\u2019s probe into the April 2019&nbsp;Easter terror bombings&nbsp;is in its final stages\u201d, authorities have said, while raising suspicion that the suicide bombers were funded by two foreign outfits\u201d. The Colombo Crime Division, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}