{"id":148108,"date":"2025-02-19T16:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T23:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=148108"},"modified":"2025-02-19T16:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T23:34:06","slug":"middeniya-shooting-death-toll-rises-to-three-as-9-year-old-succumbs-to-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/02\/19\/middeniya-shooting-death-toll-rises-to-three-as-9-year-old-succumbs-to-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Middeniya shooting: Death toll rises to three as 9-year-old succumbs to injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy AdaDerana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The death toll in the Middeniya shooting incident has risen to three, as the 9-year-old son of the 39-year-old victim has also succumbed to his injuries while receiving treatment at&nbsp; hospital, police confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had succumbed to gunshot injuries this evening while receiving treatment in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the National Hospital, Galle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said that a group of unidentified individuals had opened fire at a 39-year-old resident of Galpotta, who was traveling on a motorcycle with his son and daughter, at around 10:15 p.m. last night (18).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two including the father and his six-year-old daughter, were killed following the shooting near Kadewatta Junction in Middeniya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The motorcycle rider was killed on the spot, while his son and daughter were admitted to the Embilipitiya and Tangalle hospitals, respectively, with critical injuries, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the victim\u2019s six-year-old daughter succumbed to her injuries shortly after while receiving treatment at Tangalle Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police suspect that a T-56 assault rifle was used in the shooting, while investigations are ongoing to apprehend the suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy AdaDerana The death toll in the Middeniya shooting incident has risen to three, as the 9-year-old son of the 39-year-old victim has also succumbed to his injuries while receiving treatment at&nbsp; hospital, police confirmed. He had succumbed to gunshot injuries this evening while receiving treatment in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148108","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=148108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}