{"id":148144,"date":"2025-02-21T16:05:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=148144"},"modified":"2025-02-21T16:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:05:50","slug":"attempted-shooting-in-negombo-fails-as-gun-malfunctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/02\/21\/attempted-shooting-in-negombo-fails-as-gun-malfunctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempted shooting in Negombo fails as gun malfunctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Feb 21 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; A shooting attempt in the Negombo area failed this afternoon when the gunman&#8217;s firearm malfunctioned, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The intended target was the eldest son of Chaminda, alias &#8216;Miris Anthony&#8217;, and the attack was allegedly planned near a shop owned by the family.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to police, two individuals on a motorcycle approached the location and attempted to open fire. However, the weapon failed to discharge prompting the suspects to escape the scene.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities have launched an investigation to identify and apprehend the suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 21 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; A shooting attempt in the Negombo area failed this afternoon when the gunman&#8217;s firearm malfunctioned, police said. The intended target was the eldest son of Chaminda, alias &#8216;Miris Anthony&#8217;, and the attack was allegedly planned near a shop owned by the family.&nbsp;&nbsp; According to police, [&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-148144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148144","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=148144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}