{"id":10844,"date":"2021-05-24T07:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T07:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10844"},"modified":"2021-05-24T07:20:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T07:20:21","slug":"three-suspects-arrested-over-death-of-puttalam-uc-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/three-suspects-arrested-over-death-of-puttalam-uc-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Three suspects arrested over death of Puttalam UC Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three suspects have been arrested in connection to the death of the Puttalam Urban Council (UC) Chairman Abdul Baiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police Spokesman, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Ajith Rohana said 52-year-old Baiz and three others had a bath in the Ralmaduwa Tank and were on their way to Eluwankulama when they had met with an accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Witnesses had said the UC Chairman who was traveling in the back of an open truck had been thrown out of the vehicle and sustained serious injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had been admitted to the Puttalam Hospital following the accident, after which he was pronounced dead in the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The driver of the vehicle and two others who had accompanied the UC Chairman during the incident have been arrested by the Wanathawilluwa Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DIG Ajith Rohana said further investigations conducted by the Police had revealed that the men had been under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Puttalam and Wanathawilluwa Police are conducting a joint investigation into the matter, with statements set to be recorded from the suspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Police Spokesman said the magisterial inquiry and autopsy into the death will be conducted today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three suspects have been arrested in connection to the death of the Puttalam Urban&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10846,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844\/revisions\/10846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}