{"id":8670,"date":"2020-05-03T05:01:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T05:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=8670"},"modified":"2020-05-03T05:01:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T05:01:48","slug":"protest-against-attempt-to-cremate-body-in-kumarapuram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/protest-against-attempt-to-cremate-body-in-kumarapuram\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest against attempt to cremate body in Kumarapuram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Protests were staged against an attempt to cremate the body of a man in the Kumarapuram village after he died at the Mullaitivu quarantine center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The 80 year-old man was taken to the Mullaitivu quarantine center from Colombo and was one of two people who had reportedly died yesterday (Friday).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Both men were said to be beggars and were admitted to hospital after they had fallen ill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tests had been carried out on both remains and with the results confirming so far that the 80 year-old man had not died of the coronavirus, steps were taken to cremate his body in Kumarapuram as no one came forward to claim his body.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However youth from Kumarapuram had protested against his body being cremated in Kumarapuram.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">His body was kept at the Mullaitivu District hospital and was later expected to be taken to Vavuniya to be cremated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests were staged against an attempt to cremate the body of a man in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8671,"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-8670","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\/8670","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=8670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}