{"id":125150,"date":"2022-05-10T14:15:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T21:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=125150"},"modified":"2022-05-10T14:15:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T21:15:38","slug":"mondays-riots-eight-die-88-vehicles-and-over-100-houses-gutted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/05\/10\/mondays-riots-eight-die-88-vehicles-and-over-100-houses-gutted\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday\u2019s riots: Eight die, 88 vehicles and over 100 houses gutted"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Police said violence throughout the island on Monday has resulted in eight deaths and number of arson attacks on houses and properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said eight men including a Parliamentarian, a Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman, a Sub Inspector of Police and a Police Seargent had died during the riots and violent activities that took place island wide on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 230 have been injured in those incidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said 47 vehicles and 38 houses came under arson attack, while 41 vehicles and 65 houses had been severely damaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the vehicles and houses destroyed belonged to former ministers or MPs of the ruling party.(<strong>Darshana<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Sanjeewa<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Balasuriya<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Daily Mirror Police said violence throughout the island on Monday has resulted in eight deaths and number of arson attacks on houses and properties. They said eight men including a Parliamentarian, a Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman, a Sub Inspector of Police and a Police Seargent had died during the riots and violent activities that took [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125150","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=125150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}