{"id":88254,"date":"2019-05-06T13:16:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T20:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88254"},"modified":"2019-05-06T13:16:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T20:16:12","slug":"all-suspects-in-sri-lanka-bombings-arrested-or-dead-says-acting-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/06\/all-suspects-in-sri-lanka-bombings-arrested-or-dead-says-acting-police-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"All suspects in Sri Lanka bombings arrested or dead, says acting police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span class=\"c-article-meta__by\">Courtesy <\/span><a class=\"c-article-meta__author-title\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/euronews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Euronews\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><span class=\"c-article-meta__with\">with\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-article-meta__external-source\">Reuters<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>All suspected plotters and those directly linked to Sri Lanka&#8217;s Easter Sunday bombings have either been arrested or are dead, the country&#8217;s acting police chief said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an audio statement circulated by the defence ministry, Chandana Wickramaratne, the acting Inspector General of Police, said security forces had also confiscated bomb-making material intended for future use by the militants involved in the attacks, which killed more than 250 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lankan authorities have said the bombings were believed to have been carried out by two little-known local Islamist groups, the National Tawheed Jamaath (NTJ) and Jamathei Millathu Ibrahim (JMI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Islamic State claimed responsibility but produced no evidence to support this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Euronews\u00a0\u00a0with\u00a0Reuters All suspected plotters and those directly linked to Sri Lanka&#8217;s Easter Sunday bombings have either been arrested or are dead, the country&#8217;s acting police chief said on Monday. In an audio statement circulated by the defence ministry, Chandana Wickramaratne, the acting Inspector General of Police, said security forces had also confiscated bomb-making material [&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-88254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88254","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=88254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}