{"id":420,"date":"2026-04-27T09:31:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=420"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:31:54","slug":"couple-hospitalized-after-assault-allegedly-by-local-council-member-and-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/04\/27\/couple-hospitalized-after-assault-allegedly-by-local-council-member-and-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple Hospitalized After Assault Allegedly by Local Council Member and Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple has been seriously injured following an alleged assault by a group including Gayan Adhikari, a member of the National People\u2019s Power representing the Ipalogama Pradeshiya Sabha.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, residents of Vijithapura in the Aluthpuliyankulama area of Ipalogama, were reportedly attacked during a New Year event held at the Hiripitiyagama playground on Saturday (25).<\/p>\n<p>According to the victims, the incident occurred during the official celebration organized by the Ipalogama Pradeshiya Sabha.<\/p>\n<h3>Injuries Reported<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The woman sustained bleeding from the ear<\/li>\n<li>The man suffered a fractured arm<\/li>\n<li>Additional injuries were reported to the head and legs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The injured couple was initially admitted to the Kekirawa District Hospital and later transferred to the Dambulla Base Hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are expected to conduct further investigations into the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple has been seriously injured following an alleged assault by a group including Gayan Adhikari, a member of the National People\u2019s Power representing the Ipalogama Pradeshiya Sabha. The victims, residents of Vijithapura in the Aluthpuliyankulama area of Ipalogama, were reportedly attacked during a New Year event held at the Hiripitiyagama playground on Saturday (25). &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","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\/420","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=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}