{"id":87615,"date":"2019-04-25T02:18:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T09:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87615"},"modified":"2019-04-25T02:18:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T09:18:16","slug":"cctv-footages-of-suicide-bombers-at-shangri-la-cinnamon-grand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/25\/cctv-footages-of-suicide-bombers-at-shangri-la-cinnamon-grand\/","title":{"rendered":"CCTV footages of suicide bombers at Shangri-La &#038; Cinnamon Grand"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/0gNbG3lyd8o\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The CCTV footages of the suicide bomb attacks on Cinnamon Grand hotel in Colombo have been released to the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suicide bomber arrives at the Taprobane restaurant of the hotel at 9.12 a.m. when it was filled with guests having breakfast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bomber appears to be nervously hovering near the diners prior to detonating the vest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the CCTV footages of two suicide bombers arriving at the Shangri-La hotel in Colombo has also been released to the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They enter the hotel\u2019s elevator and get off at the third floor of the building to enter the restaurant, where they detonated the bombs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zahran Hashmi, considered to be the mastermind of the series of suicide bomb attacks was captured in this footage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The death toll of these terror attacks have increased to 359 as of yesterday (24), and 39 foreign tourists are among the dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The CCTV footages of the suicide bomb attacks on Cinnamon Grand hotel in Colombo have been released to the media. The suicide bomber arrives at the Taprobane restaurant of the hotel at 9.12 a.m. when it was filled with guests having breakfast. The bomber appears to be nervously hovering near the diners prior [&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-87615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87615","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=87615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}