{"id":311629,"date":"2019-04-25T06:10:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T06:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311629"},"modified":"2019-04-25T06:12:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T06:12:25","slug":"blast-heard-in-sri-lankas-pugoda-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/blast-heard-in-sri-lankas-pugoda-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast heard in Sri Lanka&#8217;s Pugoda town"},"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-311632 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blast-sri-lanka-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/blast-sri-lanka-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/blast-sri-lanka.jpg 516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A blast was heard on Thursday from vacant land behind the magistrates&#8217; court in the town of Pugoda, 40 km east of the capital Colombo, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the police, they were investigating the blasts, which came at a time of high tension in Sri Lanka after the Easter Sunday suicide bomber attacks on the island state that killed over 300 people and wounded about 500.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, no casualties were reported in the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More details are awaited.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blast was heard on Thursday from vacant land behind the magistrates&#8217; court in the town of Pugoda, 40 km east of the capital Colombo, police said. According to the police, they were investigating the blasts, which came at a time of high tension in Sri Lanka after the Easter Sunday suicide bomber attacks on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[11291,4881],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311629"}],"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=311629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311634,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311629\/revisions\/311634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}