{"id":45497,"date":"2016-03-02T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=45497"},"modified":"2016-03-02T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T02:44:00","slug":"dematagoda-chaminda-injured-as-prison-vehicle-with-bharatha-lakshman-premachandra-murder-suspects-attacked-by-gunmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=45497","title":{"rendered":"Dematagoda Chaminda Injured as Prison Vehicle With Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra Murder Suspects Attacked by Gunmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A group of unidentified gunmen yesterday afternoon opened fire on a prison vehicle carrying the suspects held in connection with the killing of former PA MP and presidential advisor Bharatiya Lakshman Premachnadra. Ravi Jayanath alias Dematagoda Chaminda was seriously injured in the attack which took place in the Dematagoda police area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A senior police official told The Island that the prison vehicle had been on its way to the Welikada prison from the Colombo High Court at Aluthkade. The official said that attackers fired from a car and a motorcycle, too, was used in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The case pertaining to the killing of four persons including Premachandra, was taken up at the Colombo High Court earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton45497\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D45497&amp;text=Dematagoda%20Chaminda%20Injured%20as%20Prison%20Vehicle%20With%20Bharatha%20Lakshman%20Premachandra%20Murder%20Suspects%20Attacked%20by...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of unidentified gunmen yesterday afternoon opened fire on a prison vehicle carrying the suspects held in connection with the killing of former PA MP and presidential advisor Bharatiya Lakshman Premachnadra. Ravi Jayanath alias Dematagoda Chaminda was seriously injured in the attack which took place in the Dematagoda police area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45498,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45497\/revisions\/45498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}