{"id":88331,"date":"2019-05-07T12:46:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T19:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88331"},"modified":"2019-05-07T12:46:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T19:46:55","slug":"15-swords-surrendered-to-beruwala-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/07\/15-swords-surrendered-to-beruwala-police\/","title":{"rendered":"15 swords surrendered to Beruwala Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Complying with the request made by the security forces, 15 swords have been handed over to the Beruwala Police Station today (07).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 4th, the police requested the public to hand over the illegal swords, kris knives and sharp dagger to the nearest police station by Sunday (May 5th).<\/p>\n\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\/6xygvsGXA5U\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, on Monday (06), the police spokesperson announced that the time period to surrender illegal weapons currently in their possession to the police would be extended by another 48 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, during search operations conducted by the officers of Beruwala Police Station, 15 swords were seized and the haul is to be produced before the Kalutara Magistrate\u2019s Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a separate search in Rathna Udagama and Kirikanduruwatte areas in Rathgama yesterday (06), three suspects were arrested along with 8 swords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preliminary investigations have uncovered that these swords had been used by the suspects for various criminal activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspects were to be produced before the Galle Magistrate\u2019s Court today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rathgama Police is conducting further investigations into the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Complying with the request made by the security forces, 15 swords have been handed over to the Beruwala Police Station today (07). On May 4th, the police requested the public to hand over the illegal swords, kris knives and sharp dagger to the nearest police station by Sunday (May 5th). However, on Monday [&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-88331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88331","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=88331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}