{"id":2347,"date":"2026-06-09T18:13:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2026-06-09T18:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:13:50","slug":"excavation-at-chemmani-mass-grave-yields-9-skeletal-remains-including-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/06\/09\/excavation-at-chemmani-mass-grave-yields-9-skeletal-remains-including-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Excavation at Chemmani Mass Grave Yields 9 Skeletal Remains, Including Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A total of nine sets of skeletal remains, including the remains of eight children, were recovered today (9) from the Chemmani mass grave site.<\/p>\n<p>Officials also reported that a coin was recovered as a piece of evidence from atop one of the skeletal remains.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the remains of an infant were among the nine sets of skeletal remains that were unearthed and identified during today\u2019s excavation activities.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing excavation marks the 20th day of the third phase of the Chemmani mass grave investigation, which is being conducted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>During today\u2019s work, nine skeletal remains, including those of children previously identified, were fully excavated and recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, another set of skeletal remains, including that of an infant, has been identified, and cleaning and examination work is currently underway.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, a total of 327 skeletal remains have been identified so far at the Chemmani site, of which 311 have been fully excavated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of nine sets of skeletal remains, including the remains of eight children, were recovered today (9) from the Chemmani mass grave site. Officials also reported that a coin was recovered as a piece of evidence from atop one of the skeletal remains. In addition, the remains of an infant were among the nine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2347","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\/2347","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=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2349,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions\/2349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}