{"id":2134,"date":"2026-06-03T08:01:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2026-06-03T08:01:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:01:46","slug":"mother-arrested-after-allegedly-throwing-2%c2%bd-month-old-baby-into-well-in-elpitiya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/06\/03\/mother-arrested-after-allegedly-throwing-2%c2%bd-month-old-baby-into-well-in-elpitiya\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Arrested After Allegedly Throwing 2\u00bd-Month-Old Baby into Well in Elpitiya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mother has been arrested on suspicion of throwing her 2\u00bd-month-old infant into a well in the Kahathuduwa, Elpitiya area, police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Elpitiya Police, the suspect allegedly threw the baby into the well and then shouted, stating that she had thrown the child into the water.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing the commotion, the child\u2019s father immediately rushed to the scene and rescued the infant, who was found floating in the well. With the assistance of neighbours, the baby was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Police stated that the well was shallow, which enabled the child to be rescued quickly, preventing a fatal outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital sources confirmed that the baby is not in a critical condition at present.<\/p>\n<p>Police have launched further investigations into the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mother has been arrested on suspicion of throwing her 2\u00bd-month-old infant into a well in the Kahathuduwa, Elpitiya area, police said. According to Elpitiya Police, the suspect allegedly threw the baby into the well and then shouted, stating that she had thrown the child into the water. Hearing the commotion, the child\u2019s father immediately &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2134","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\/2134","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=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}