{"id":6073,"date":"2019-04-21T07:04:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T07:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6073"},"modified":"2019-04-21T07:04:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T07:04:58","slug":"explosions-in-kochchikade-batticaloa-and-katana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/explosions-in-kochchikade-batticaloa-and-katana\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosions in Kochchikade, Batticaloa and Katana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At least six explosions were reported this morning at three churches in Kochchikade, Katana, and Batticaloa and three five-star hotels in Colombo, police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Explosions were reported at St. Anthony&#8217;s Church in Kochchikade, Kotahena and St.Sebastian&#8217;s Church in Katuwapitiya, Katana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Explosions were also reported at three five-star hotels, the Shangri-La, Cinnamon Grand and Kingsbury in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Police said another explosion was reported at a church in Batticaloa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Several casualties including foreign tourists have been reported.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6075\" src=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Batticaloa2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Batticaloa2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Batticaloa2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Batticaloa2-74x55.jpg 74w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Batticaloa2-111x83.jpg 111w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Batticaloa2-215x161.jpg 215w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Batticaloa2.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6076\" src=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Batticaloa3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Batticaloa3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Batticaloa3.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6077\" src=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Batticaloa4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Batticaloa4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Batticaloa4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Batticaloa4-74x55.jpg 74w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Batticaloa4-111x83.jpg 111w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Batticaloa4-215x161.jpg 215w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Batticaloa4.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six explosions were reported this morning at three churches in Kochchikade, Katana,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6074,"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-6073","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\/6073","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=6073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}