{"id":88467,"date":"2019-05-09T15:48:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T22:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88467"},"modified":"2019-05-09T15:48:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T22:48:24","slug":"shangri-la-suicide-bombers-had-rented-out-six-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/09\/shangri-la-suicide-bombers-had-rented-out-six-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Shangri-la suicide bombers had rented out six houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Nimanthi Ranasinghe <\/strong>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday informed the Colombo Fort Magistrate Court that the two suicide bombers, who blew themselves up at the Shangri-la Hotel in Colombo, had rented out at least six houses in various parts of the country and used them time to time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, Mohamed Cassim Mohamed Zaharan alias \u2018Zaharan Haseem\u2019 the mastermind of the Easter Sunday attacks and Mohamed Ibrahim Ilham Ahamed, who carried out the suicide attacks at the Shangri-la Hotel, had rented out these houses in Mt.Lavinia, Lucky Plaza, Colombo-03, Mahavila Garden, Dematagoda, Kochchikade, Badalkumbura and Bibile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CID also informed that Zahran had been identified by the National Thawheed Jamaath members as Abhu Bakthar\u2019 while the other Ibrahim Ahamed was identified as \u2018Abhu Bhara\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CID had recorded statements from at least fifteen house owners and produced their statements to the Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was also revealed that seven vehicles- two three-wheelers, two WagonR cars, Vezzel, and two Alto cars had been rented out by these two bombers for their use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nimanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday informed the Colombo Fort Magistrate Court that the two suicide bombers, who blew themselves up at the Shangri-la Hotel in Colombo, had rented out at least six houses in various parts of the country and used them time to time. Accordingly, Mohamed Cassim [&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-88467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88467","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=88467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}