{"id":25306,"date":"2020-11-30T16:51:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T07:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/30\/sri-lanka-prisoners-killed-in-riot-over-coronavirus-conditions"},"modified":"2020-11-30T16:51:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T07:51:41","slug":"sri-lanka-prisoners-killed-in-riot-over-coronavirus-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25306","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka prisoners killed in riot over coronavirus conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pandemic-related unrest has been growing in country\u2019s overcrowded prisons<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At least eight inmates were killed and 71 others injured when guards opened fire to control a riot over coronavirus conditions at a prison on the outskirts of Sri Lanka\u2019s capital, officials have said.<\/p>\n<p>Two guards were critically injured.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/30\/sri-lanka-prisoners-killed-in-riot-over-coronavirus-conditions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pandemic-related unrest has been growing in country\u2019s overcrowded prisonsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAt least eight inmates were killed and 71 others injured when guards opened fire to control a riot over coronavirus con&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1727,"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":[1066,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","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\/25306","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\/1727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25307,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25306\/revisions\/25307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}