{"id":87736,"date":"2019-04-26T15:02:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T22:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87736"},"modified":"2019-04-26T15:02:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T22:02:31","slug":"sri-lanka-raids-net-bomb-making-equipment-isis-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/26\/sri-lanka-raids-net-bomb-making-equipment-isis-flags\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka raids net bomb-making equipment, ISIS flags"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"author-byline\">\n<h2 class=\"byline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<a class=\"amanda-woods\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/author\/amanda-woods\/\">Amanda Woods Courtesy\u00a0 New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Security forces in Sri Lanka were involved in a shootout \u2014 and seized bomb-making equipment as well as ISIS flags and uniforms \u2014 during sweeping raids within the country\u2019s eastern region Friday, according to a new report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/04\/26\/sri-lanka-raids-net-bomb-making-equipment-isis-flags\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/04\/26\/sri-lanka-raids-net-bomb-making-equipment-isis-flags\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The forces were searching for suspects linked to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/04\/21\/suicide-bombing-in-sri-lanka-leaves-at-least-30-dead-283-wounded\/\">Easter Sunday bombings that claimed about 253 lives<\/a>&nbsp;when they found a cache of explosives at a home in Samanthurai,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/26\/asia\/sri-lanka-bombings-suspect-intl\/index.html\">CNN reported.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the flags and uniforms, authorities found 50 sticks of the rock-blasting explosive Gelignite, 100,000 ball bearings and a drone camera, according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three explosions were also reported in the city of Kalmunai, the outlet reported. Security forces got into a shootout with a suspected group there,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NIDAHASAnews\/status\/1121784569135423490?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\">Sri Lanka News outlet Nidahasa News tweeted.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The raids came after Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena ordered a major search operation during a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmdnews.lk\/we-will-meet-this-challenge-and-defeat-terrorism-president\/\">Friday press conference.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every household in the country will be checked,\u201d Sirisena said. The lists of permanent residents of every house will be established to ensure no unknown persons could live anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe previously told CNN that authorities were working to root out possible sleeper\u201d cells who could launch even more attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Amanda Woods Courtesy\u00a0 New York Post Security forces in Sri Lanka were involved in a shootout \u2014 and seized bomb-making equipment as well as ISIS flags and uniforms \u2014 during sweeping raids within the country\u2019s eastern region Friday, according to a new report. https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/04\/26\/sri-lanka-raids-net-bomb-making-equipment-isis-flags\/ The forces were searching for suspects linked to the&nbsp;Easter Sunday bombings [&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-87736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87736","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=87736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}