{"id":311595,"date":"2019-04-23T13:22:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T13:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311595"},"modified":"2019-04-23T13:22:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T13:22:29","slug":"islamic-state-claims-responsibility-for-bombings-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/islamic-state-claims-responsibility-for-bombings-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic State claims responsibility for bombings in Sri Lanka"},"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=\"580\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/srlanka-vlast-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/srlanka-vlast-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/srlanka-vlast.jpg 542w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Islamic State has claimed responsibility for coordinated bombings in Sri Lanka which killed over 300 people and injured about 500 others, sources said on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, US intelligence sources had said the attacks carried some of the hallmarks of the Islamic State militant group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A series of powerful blasts ripped through three churches and as many luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday shattering a decade of peace in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The blasts targeted St Anthony&#8217;s Church in Colombo, St Sebastian&#8217;s Church in the western coastal town of Negombo and another church in the eastern town of Batticaloa on Sunday morning as the Easter prayers 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, 40 suspects, including the driver of a van allegedly used by the suicide bombers were arrested in connection with the attacks so far.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State has claimed responsibility for coordinated bombings in Sri Lanka which killed over 300 people and injured about 500 others, sources said on Tuesday. Earlier, US intelligence sources had said the attacks carried some of the hallmarks of the Islamic State militant group. A series of powerful blasts ripped through three churches and as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[891,4881],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311595"}],"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=311595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311596,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311595\/revisions\/311596"}],"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=311595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}