{"id":118663,"date":"2021-09-28T16:26:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T23:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118663"},"modified":"2021-09-28T16:26:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T23:26:53","slug":"navy-officials-inform-bopitiya-church-to-be-vigilant-of-a-possible-attack-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/28\/navy-officials-inform-bopitiya-church-to-be-vigilant-of-a-possible-attack-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy officials inform Bopitiya Church to be vigilant of a possible attack (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> A group of naval officers has arrived at St. Nicholas Church in Ja-Ela-Bopitiya and asked persons there to be vigilant as information has been received that a bomb attack is being carried out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rev. Father Jayantha Nimal of the church stated that a team of naval officers returned this afternoon and rectified the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db1\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0d9a \u0dc4\u0db8\u0dd4\u0daf\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0db4\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dd2\u0dba\u0d9a\u0da7 \u0d85\u0db1\u0dad\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd4 \u0d87\u0d9f\u0dc0\u0dd3\u0db8\u0d9a\u0dca - \u0db4\u0dab\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0da9\u0dda \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0da9\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dd4\u0dad\u0dca \u0d9a\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dbd\u0dcf\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DFlhK4K3O_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CCTV footage also showed a group of naval officers arriving at the church in a cab at around 10.05 am today (28).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The church priest had not been present at that time, and the navy officials had stated to a maid who was at the church that there was a possibility of an attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rev. Jayantha Nimal had telephoned the naval officer who had arrived at the church and inquired about the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The church priest had also inquired from the Archbishop&#8217;s Palace regarding the relevant message given by the Navy officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rev. Jayantha Nimal stated that a group of officers from the Uswetakeiyawa Naval Base had visited the church this afternoon and stated that the statement made by the Welisara Naval Base this morning that there was a possibility of an attack was a mistake and that steps would be taken to rectify it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hiru News team inquired about this from the Public Security Minister Sarath Weerasekara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He told Hiru News team after a discussion with the Navy Media Spokesperson that it was part of a security plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the Minister further stated that the officials who visited the church have made more statements than required and that they would rectify the statements made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the church priest, a group of officers from the Uswetakeiyawa naval base had come to the church and rectified the facts that had been presented in excess of the required amount. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News A group of naval officers has arrived at St. Nicholas Church in Ja-Ela-Bopitiya and asked persons there to be vigilant as information has been received that a bomb attack is being carried out. Rev. Father Jayantha Nimal of the church stated that a team of naval officers returned this afternoon and rectified [&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-118663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118663","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=118663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}