{"id":87357,"date":"2019-04-21T15:08:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T22:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87357"},"modified":"2019-04-21T15:08:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T22:08:50","slug":"pipe-bomb-detonated-on-road-to-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/21\/pipe-bomb-detonated-on-road-to-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipe bomb detonated on road to airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Sydney Morning Herald<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A pipe bomb was found near Colombo&#8217;s airport, according to officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bomb was found on a road near Bandaranaike International Airport and detonated by explosives experts, Air Force spokesman Gihan Seneviratne told Bloomberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three police officers were killed while searching a suspected safe house in the outskirts of Colombo in the eighth explosion on Easter Sunday. The occupants of the house reportedly detonated explosives to prevent arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The explosions tore through congregations at churches in Colombo, nearby Negombo and the eastern Sri Lankan town of Batticaloa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hotels hit in Colombo were the Shangri-La, the Kingsbury, the Cinnamon Grand and the Tropical Inn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Sydney Morning Herald A pipe bomb was found near Colombo&#8217;s airport, according to officials. The bomb was found on a road near Bandaranaike International Airport and detonated by explosives experts, Air Force spokesman Gihan Seneviratne told Bloomberg. Three police officers were killed while searching a suspected safe house in the outskirts of Colombo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87357","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=87357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}