{"id":87385,"date":"2019-04-22T05:36:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T12:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87385"},"modified":"2019-04-22T05:36:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T12:36:30","slug":"lankan-president-appoints-three-man-panel-to-look-into-blasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/22\/lankan-president-appoints-three-man-panel-to-look-into-blasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lankan President appoints three-man panel to look into blasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, April 22 (newsin.asia): The Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday appointed a three-man committee to go into Easter Sunday\u2019s multiple blasts in Colombo, Negombo, and Batticaloa, and report back to him in two weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The members of the committee include Sri Lankan Supreme Court justice Vijith Malalgoda, form Inspector General of police N.k.Illangakoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blasts in eight places took the lives of 290 persons, including, 36 foreign nationals, and left 500 injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The junior Minister of Defense Ruwan Wikewardene said that 24 persons have been arrested so far for questioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police have a curfew from 8 pm on Monday to 4 am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 22 (newsin.asia): The Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday appointed a three-man committee to go into Easter Sunday\u2019s multiple blasts in Colombo, Negombo, and Batticaloa, and report back to him in two weeks\u2019 time. The members of the committee include Sri Lankan Supreme Court justice Vijith Malalgoda, form Inspector General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87385","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=87385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}