{"id":311709,"date":"2019-04-28T06:17:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T06:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311709"},"modified":"2019-04-28T06:17:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T06:17:16","slug":"isis-claims-its-3-militants-blew-themselves-in-sri-lankan-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/isis-claims-its-3-militants-blew-themselves-in-sri-lankan-raids\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS claims its 3 militants blew themselves in Sri Lankan raids"},"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-311711 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Sri-Lanka-1-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/Sri-Lanka-1-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/Sri-Lanka-1-534x326.jpg 534w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/Sri-Lanka-1.jpg 535w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Islamic State has claimed the responsibility of three militants who blew themselves up during a gun fight with security forces in Sri Lanka&#8217;s Eastern province, a media report said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Special Task Force and Army troops continued their hunt for the local terror outfit National Thowheeth Jamaath (NTJ), suspected to be behind the Sunday Easter blasts and conducted a raid on a terrorist hideout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The men set off explosives after a long gun battle with police inside the terrorist safe house in the eastern town of Kalmunai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Fifteen people including three women and six children died in the clashes, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a statement published early on Sunday by the ISIS propaganda &#8216;Amaq&#8217; news agency, the ISIS said that it gave their noms du guerre as Abu Hammad, Abu Sufyan and Abu al-Qa&#8217;qa, the Colombo Gazette reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It said the militants clashed with them (Sri Lankan police) with automatic weapons, and after exhausting their ammunition, detonated on them their explosive belts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The security forces had also recovered a huge cache of explosives from the spot apart from detonators, suicide kits etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nine suicide bombers carried out a series of devastating explosions that tore through three churches and luxury hotels on the Easter Sunday, killing over 250 people and wounded about 500.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamic State has claimed the responsibility of three militants who blew themselves up during a gun fight with security forces in Sri Lanka&#8217;s Eastern province, a media report said. The Special Task Force and Army troops continued their hunt for the local terror outfit National Thowheeth Jamaath (NTJ), suspected to be behind the Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311711,"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\/311709"}],"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=311709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311712,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311709\/revisions\/311712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}