{"id":88250,"date":"2019-05-06T13:02:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T20:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88250"},"modified":"2019-05-06T13:02:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T20:02:20","slug":"sri-lanka-police-says-all-suspected-easter-attack-plotters-arrested-or-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/06\/sri-lanka-police-says-all-suspected-easter-attack-plotters-arrested-or-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka police says all suspected Easter attack plotters arrested or dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>RT<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.05\/xxs\/5cd082cadda4c8b92f8b45ec.JPG\" alt=\"Sri Lanka police says all suspected Easter attack plotters arrested or dead\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>FILE PHOTO: Sri Lankan soldiers deploy outside a church in Negombo, following a string of deadly bombings \u00a9 Reuters \/ Danish Siddiqui<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s acting police chief Chandana Wickramaratne has said that all of the suspects linked with the Easter Sunday bombings have been arrested or are dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement follows a nationwide manhunt for the perpetrators and their associates, 30 of whom were believed to still be at large over the weekend. Nine previously arrested suspects were released on bail earlier on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suicide bombing attacks, later claimed by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group, targeted three Christian churches and three luxury hotels, killing more than 250 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s government has responded forcefully to the attacks, declaring a state of emergency, expelling Islamic preachers, and banning face coverings in public. Authorities remain on high alert, and warned last week of&nbsp;<em>another wave of attacks,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;possibly carried out by terrorists disguised as military personnel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RT FILE PHOTO: Sri Lankan soldiers deploy outside a church in Negombo, following a string of deadly bombings \u00a9 Reuters \/ Danish Siddiqui Sri Lanka\u2019s acting police chief Chandana Wickramaratne has said that all of the suspects linked with the Easter Sunday bombings have been arrested or are dead. The announcement follows a nationwide manhunt [&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-88250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88250","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=88250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}