{"id":120454,"date":"2021-11-20T16:31:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T23:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120454"},"modified":"2021-11-20T16:31:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T23:31:50","slug":"stf-arrests-a-man-with-smuggled-explosives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/20\/stf-arrests-a-man-with-smuggled-explosives\/","title":{"rendered":"STF arrests a man with smuggled explosives"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> A stock of high explosives smuggled from India has been seized by the Police Special Task Force (STF) following a intelligence information received by the Navy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The STF arrested a person with a stock of illegal high explosives during a search operation conducted in the Shanthipuram beach area in Mannar today (20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total weight of the explosives was 998 kilograms and 750 grams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The security forces are conducting further investigations into the purpose for which the explosives were smuggled into the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrested suspect is a 55 year old resident of Shanthipuram, Mannar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News A stock of high explosives smuggled from India has been seized by the Police Special Task Force (STF) following a intelligence information received by the Navy. The STF arrested a person with a stock of illegal high explosives during a search operation conducted in the Shanthipuram beach area in Mannar today (20). [&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-120454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120454","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=120454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}