{"id":2638,"date":"2018-03-06T07:11:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T07:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2018-03-06T07:11:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T07:11:18","slug":"curfew-in-kandy-lifted-but-police-say-tight-security-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/curfew-in-kandy-lifted-but-police-say-tight-security-remains\/","title":{"rendered":"Curfew in Kandy lifted but Police say tight security remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A curfew imposed in Kandy was lifted this morning but the Police said that tight security is still in place following the violence experienced yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The curfew was imposed till 6 this morning after a mob attacked several Muslim owned shops and other property.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Police fired tear gas and later imposed a curfew as violence erupted in Kandy yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">An angry mob attacked Muslim owned shops and at least one mosque in Digana following a protest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Police used tear gas to disperse the mob but the tensions continued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Meanwhile, in Theldeniya the Police fired tear gas after an unruly mob, including monks, gathered outside the Theldeniya Police station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The violence erupted after a man was killed in the Kandy area resulting in several racially motivated incidents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) the venerable Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara thera, was among those who visited the house of the victim on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The mob which gathered outside the Theldeniya Police station yesterday demanded that a group of suspects arrested over the racially motivated incidents be set free.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As the situation got out of control a Police curfew was imposed in the Kandy administrative district till 6am today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The latest violence comes just weeks after similar violence erupted in Ampara.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A curfew imposed in Kandy was lifted this morning but the Police said that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2639,"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-2638","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\/2638","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=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}