{"id":11162,"date":"2019-11-16T15:12:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T06:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/16\/sri-lanka-presidential-election-gunmen-fire-on-buses-carrying-muslim-voters"},"modified":"2019-11-16T21:25:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T12:25:12","slug":"sri-lanka-presidential-election-buses-carrying-muslim-voters-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11162","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka presidential election: buses carrying Muslim voters attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say convoy of more than 100 vehicles was shot at but no casualties reported<\/p>\n<p>Buses transporting Muslims to cast their ballots in Sri Lanka\u2019s presidential election have been attacked by gunfire, fuelling fears that minorities are being targeted to stop them from voting.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/15\/muslims-fear-rajapaksa-win-in-sri-lanka-election\">&#8216;There will be no hope&#8217;: Muslims fear Rajapaksa win in Sri Lanka election<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/16\/sri-lanka-presidential-election-gunmen-fire-on-buses-carrying-muslim-voters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say convoy of more than 100 vehicles was shot at but no casualties reportedBuses transporting Muslims to cast their ballots in Sri Lanka\u2019s presidential election have been attacked by gunfire, fuelling fears that minorities are being targeted to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11172,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162\/revisions\/11172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}