{"id":1597,"date":"2017-07-12T05:58:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T05:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2017-07-12T05:58:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T05:58:34","slug":"hrc-investigates-police-shooting-of-youth-in-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/hrc-investigates-police-shooting-of-youth-in-north\/","title":{"rendered":"HRC investigates Police shooting of youth in North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Human Rights Commission in Sri Lanka is investigating the incident where a youth was killed when the Police opened fire on his vehicle this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Two policemen have been arrested over the incident and they have been remanded till July 24.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Police opened fire on the vehicle in Vadamarachchi East, which allegedly failed to stop at a Police check point. The 24 year old was killed in the gunfire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to the Police the vehicle was transporting sand without a permit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Human Rights Commission in Sri Lanka is investigating the incident where a youth&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","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=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}