{"id":117497,"date":"2021-08-26T14:29:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T21:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117497"},"modified":"2021-08-26T14:29:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T21:29:53","slug":"stf-uncovers-high-power-explosives-in-matara-and-gandara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/26\/stf-uncovers-high-power-explosives-in-matara-and-gandara\/","title":{"rendered":"STF uncovers high-power explosives in Matara and Gandara"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Special Task Force (STF) personnel have found a large haul of equipment used for high-power explosives in the Matara and Gandara police areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The raids had been carried out based on intelligence received by the STF Special Operations Unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A stock of ammonium nitrate, gelatine sticks, service threads, and other items have been found during the raid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preliminary investigations have revealed that the explosives were stored under the guise of operating a quarry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two individuals have been arrested in connection with the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The explosives and the suspects have been handed over to the Matara Police Station for further investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Special Task Force (STF) personnel have found a large haul of equipment used for high-power explosives in the Matara and Gandara police areas. The raids had been carried out based on intelligence received by the STF Special Operations Unit. A stock of ammonium nitrate, gelatine sticks, service threads, and other items have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117497","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=117497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}