{"id":11126,"date":"2021-08-07T20:46:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T20:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11126"},"modified":"2021-08-07T20:46:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T20:46:18","slug":"police-investigate-fake-bomb-threat-which-caused-panic-in-colombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/police-investigate-fake-bomb-threat-which-caused-panic-in-colombo\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate fake bomb threat which caused panic in Colombo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Police are investigating a fake bomb threat which caused panic in Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Social media posts had circulated warning of bomb attacks to be carried out day before yesterday similar to the Easter Sunday incidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The social media posts had warned of bombings targeting hotels in Colombo as well as other locations around the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guests at some hotels began to leave last night fearing there will be an attack and Colombo was in a state on panic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the Police and military said that there was no such threat and that the social media posts were fake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Police have now launched an investigation to identify the source of the fake news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police are investigating a fake bomb threat which caused panic in Colombo. Social&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11127,"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-11126","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\/11126","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=11126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11128,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126\/revisions\/11128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}