{"id":110207,"date":"2019-04-24T07:32:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T06:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=110207"},"modified":"2019-04-24T07:32:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T06:32:56","slug":"one-of-the-sri-lanka-attackers-studied-in-uk-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=110207","title":{"rendered":"One of the Sri Lanka attackers studied in UK | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the suicide bombers in Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday attacks studied in the UK.<\/p>\n

The country’s Deputy Defense Minister Ruwan Wijewardene also told a press conference that an explosion in Colombo earlier was a controlled blast on a motorbike near the Savoy hotel.<\/p>\n

At the conference the minister revealed that there were nine suicide bombers, and eight have been identified.<\/p>\n

60 people have been arrested and 32 of those are still in custody – all of which are Sri Lankan.<\/p>\n

He added that the suspects had two safe-houses which made it easy to plan the attacks.<\/p>\n

It comes as the number of confirmed dead in the attacks has risen to 359.<\/p>\n

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One of the suicide bombers in Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday attacks studied in the UK. The country’s Deputy Defense Minister Ruwan Wijewardene also told a press conference that an explosion in Colombo earlier was a controlled blast on a motorbike near the Savoy hotel. At the conference the minister revealed that there were nine suicide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773],"tags":[8619,11680],"class_list":["post-110207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-christmas","tag-sri-lanka"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}