{"id":311554,"date":"2019-04-22T06:39:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T06:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311554"},"modified":"2019-04-22T06:39:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T06:39:10","slug":"5-indians-among-290-killed-in-sri-lanka-serial-blasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/5-indians-among-290-killed-in-sri-lanka-serial-blasts\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Indians among 290 killed in Sri Lanka serial blasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-311555 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/srlanka-vlast-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/srlanka-vlast-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/srlanka-vlast.jpg 542w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Five Indians were among the\u00a0290 killed in the bombings in Sri Lanka on Sunday and about 500 people were wounded in the series of blasts that left the country grieving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday identified two more individuals who lost their lives in the blasts on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe sadly confirm the deaths of the following two individuals in the blasts yesterday, K G Hanumantharayappa and M Rangappa,\u201d Swaraj tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Swaraj on Sunday in a tweet identified the three Indians as Lakshmi, Narayan Chandrashekhar and Ramesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIndian High Commission in Colombo has conveyed that National Hospital has informed them about the death of three Indian nationals,\u201d she tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The explosions targeted St Anthony\u2019s Church in Colombo, St Sebastian\u2019s Church in the western coastal town of Negombo and another church in the town of Batticaloa in the east of the country on Sunday morning as the Easter mass were in progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Three explosions were reported from the five-star hotels. Those who were injured in hotel blasts were admitted to the Hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, 24 people from the minority Muslim community have been arrested in connection with the multiple blasts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A curfew which was imposed across Sri Lanka shortly after the serial blasts was lifted on early Monday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Indians were among the\u00a0290 killed in the bombings in Sri Lanka on Sunday and about 500 people were wounded in the series of blasts that left the country grieving. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday identified two more individuals who lost their lives in the blasts on Sunday. \u201cWe sadly confirm the deaths [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[4881],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311556,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311554\/revisions\/311556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}