{"id":78782,"date":"2018-06-27T03:35:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T10:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=78782"},"modified":"2018-06-27T03:35:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T10:35:38","slug":"tamil-nadu-police-arrests-sri-lankan-man-near-rameswaram-seizes-boat-and-cache-of-ammunition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/06\/27\/tamil-nadu-police-arrests-sri-lankan-man-near-rameswaram-seizes-boat-and-cache-of-ammunition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu Police arrests Sri Lankan man near Rameswaram, seizes boat and cache of ammunition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a class=\"article-by\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/author\/pti\">Press Trust of India<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Rameswaram:<\/strong>\u00a0A Sri Lankan national, was arrested at Uchipuli Valangapuri coast near Rameswaram while two others escaped into a nearby forest, police said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sagaya Stephen from Thalaimannar was seen moving around in suspicious circumstances near the coast last night along with two others when he was arrested, &#8216;Q&#8217; Branch inspector N Rajeswari said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2688730\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2688730\" src=\"https:\/\/images.firstpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tamil-nadu-police_380_IBN.jpg\" alt=\"Representational image. News18\" width=\"380\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational image. News18<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The two others managed to escape into a nearby forest, she added.<\/p>\n<p>The trio had come from Thalaimannar by a fibreglass boat, she said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"FirstPost_Wap_New\/FirstPost_Wap_New_India\/FirstPost_Wap_New_India_Internal\/FirstPost_Wap_New_India_Internal_Between_Sections_300x250_2\" class=\"between-300x250\">\n<div class=\"ad-section text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Police also seized the boat which was fitted with a Suzuki engine.<\/p>\n<p>Enquiries are on to find out why the trio had come to the town.<\/p>\n<div id=\"FirstPost_Wap_New\/FirstPost_Wap_New_ROS\/FirstPost_Wap_New_ROS_Native_320x100\">\n<div class=\"ad-section text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Police had on Monday recovered more than 50 boxes of abandoned ammunition, 41 light machine guns, 22 machine guns and five landmines near Thangachimadam area in Ramanathapuram district.<\/p>\n<p>The explosives were recovered after occupants of the house alerted police to what they had discovered while a septic tank was being dug following which police were dispatched to the spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Trust of India\u00a0 Rameswaram:\u00a0A Sri Lankan national, was arrested at Uchipuli Valangapuri coast near Rameswaram while two others escaped into a nearby forest, police said on Wednesday. Sagaya Stephen from Thalaimannar was seen moving around in suspicious circumstances near the coast last night along with two others when he was arrested, &#8216;Q&#8217; Branch inspector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78782","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=78782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}