{"id":6118,"date":"2019-04-24T12:45:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T12:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6118"},"modified":"2019-04-24T12:45:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T12:45:55","slug":"inside-factory-where-sri-lanka-jihadists-plotted-to-slaughter-christians-mother-of-satan-explosive-used-in-attacks-were-made-in-workshop-owned-by-one-of-the-suicide-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/inside-factory-where-sri-lanka-jihadists-plotted-to-slaughter-christians-mother-of-satan-explosive-used-in-attacks-were-made-in-workshop-owned-by-one-of-the-suicide-bombers\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside factory where Sri Lanka jihadists plotted to slaughter Christians: &#8216;Mother of Satan&#8217; explosive used in attacks &#8216;were made in workshop owned by one of the suicide bombers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>The bombs are thought to have been made in a copper factory in Wellampitiya, a suburb of Colombo<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>It was owned by businessman and father-of-four Inshaf Ahamad, who blew himself up at a hotel on Sunday\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Police raided the copper factory last night and took nine suspects &#8211; including the manager &#8211; into custody\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>At least 290 people were killed and 500 wounded after eight explosions hit hotels and churches<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This is the factory where the Easter Sunday attacks were masterminded and the &#8216;mother of Satan&#8217; suicide bombs are believed to have been built, MailOnline can reveal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The copper factory, in Wellampitiya, a north-eastern suburb of Colombo, belonged to &#8216;calm and devout&#8217; Inshaf Ahamad, who is understood to have blown himself up at a hotel frequented by foreigners in the atrocity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Inshaf&#8217;s brother-in-law said the businessman drove a brand new white Land Cruiser and came from a middle class background.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The copper factory in\u00a0Wellampitiya, a suburb of Colombo, was raided by police in Sri Lanka last night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">290 people were killed and 500 wounded after eight explosions hit hotels and churches on Easter Sunday<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Inshaf&#8217;s brother-in-law told MailOnline that the businessman drove a brand new white Land Cruiser. A factory employee said he would come to the site daily for about 20 minutes but speak only to the manager<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking to MailOnline, Ashkhan Alamdeen, 29, said he had brought shame their family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8216;They have ruined our family and taken the lives of hundreds of people from all over the world,&#8217; Ashkhan said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: The MailOnline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bombs are thought to have been made in a copper factory in Wellampitiya,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6119,"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-6118","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\/6118","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=6118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}