{"id":16687,"date":"2019-04-23T12:59:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T10:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=16687"},"modified":"2019-04-23T13:01:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T11:01:37","slug":"breaking-daesh-claims-responsibility-for-deadly-sri-lankan-bombings-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=16687","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Daesh Claims Responsibility for Deadly Sri Lankan Bombings &#8211; Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/breaking.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/breaking.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"784\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/breaking.png 784w, https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/breaking-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/breaking-768x308.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"b-article__header-title m-static\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"b-article__refs-text \">\n<div class=\"b-counters \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sputnik &#8211; On Sunday, Sri Lanka was hit by a series of coordinated bombing attacks targeting churches and hotels across the country, that claimed lives of at least 321 and wounded about 500 more. The country&#8217;s defence minister recently stated that the series of blasts was a response to the Christchurch mosque attack in New Zealand, which targeted Muslims.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"b-article__text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The terrorist group Daesh* has claimed responsibility for\u00a0the Sri Lanka bombings, Reuters reported.\u00a0However, the news agency noted that the terrorists have failed to\u00a0provide any evidence of\u00a0the claim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today is a day of\u00a0national mourning for\u00a0the victims of\u00a0Sunday&#8217;s multiple blasts, that took place in\u00a0various parts of\u00a0the country, hitting several churches with\u00a0Easter holiday worshippers as\u00a0well as\u00a0hotels in\u00a0Colombo and other cities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Sri Lankan police have announced that the death toll from\u00a0the attacks has climbed to\u00a0321, and that about\u00a0500 more were wounded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>DETAILS TO FOLLOW<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sputnik &#8211; On Sunday, Sri Lanka was hit by a series of coordinated bombing attacks targeting churches and hotels across the country, that claimed lives of at least 321 and wounded about 500 more. The country&#8217;s defence minister recently stated that the series of blasts was a response to the Christchurch mosque attack in New &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16690,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16687\/revisions\/16690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}