{"id":1119,"date":"2026-05-11T18:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:30:43","slug":"inmate-dies-after-falling-from-building-at-welikada-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/11\/inmate-dies-after-falling-from-building-at-welikada-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate Dies After Falling From Building at Welikada Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prison sources say that an inmate at Welikada Prison has died after falling from a building inside the prison premises.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased inmate had been serving a sentence after being found guilty in connection with the murder case of Member of Parliament Amarakirthi Athukorala.<\/p>\n<p>According to prison sources, the inmate was immediately admitted to hospital following the fall, but later died despite receiving treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prison sources say that an inmate at Welikada Prison has died after falling from a building inside the prison premises. The deceased inmate had been serving a sentence after being found guilty in connection with the murder case of Member of Parliament Amarakirthi Athukorala. According to prison sources, the inmate was immediately admitted to hospital &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}