{"id":87873,"date":"2019-04-28T16:23:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T23:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87873"},"modified":"2019-04-28T16:23:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T23:23:55","slug":"easter-sunday-carnage-masterminds-wife-and-daughter-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/28\/easter-sunday-carnage-masterminds-wife-and-daughter-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Sunday carnage mastermind\u2019s wife and daughter found"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.island.lk\/modules\/modPublication\/article_title_images\/2033878504DI-P01-29-04-(RE)-kwk..jpg\" alt=\"article_image\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Following last Friday\u2019s gun battle between extremists and the security forces in the East, troops found the wife and the daughter of Zahran Hashim, the mastermind of the Easter Sunday carnage. Police headquarters spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekera yesterday said that they had been in the house where at least a suicide cadre triggered an explosion causing number of deaths. Yesterday, security forces found 15 bodies in the compound.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SP Gunasekera said that interrogation of Hashim\u2019s driver had led to the recovery of weapons belonging to two police officers killed in the East last year.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Eastern Province killings were earlier blamed on former members of the LTTE. The police spokesman said that Hashim\u2019s driver had revealed how the weapons had been taken from the police officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Island Following last Friday\u2019s gun battle between extremists and the security forces in the East, troops found the wife and the daughter of Zahran Hashim, the mastermind of the Easter Sunday carnage. Police headquarters spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekera yesterday said that they had been in the house where at least a suicide cadre [&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-87873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87873","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=87873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}