{"id":58246,"date":"2026-06-04T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=58246"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:43:10","slug":"fire-kills-12-people-in-sri-lankan-home-for-older-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=58246","title":{"rendered":"Fire kills 12 people in Sri Lankan home for older people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">COLOMBO, June 4 &#8211; A dozen people have died in \u200ba fire at a \u200chome for older people in Sri Lanka, police said \u200bon Thursday, while \u200banother eight have been hospitalised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u2060fire, which broke out \u200bat a home in \u200bAnguruwatota (55 km or 34 miles from the commercial capital Colombo), has \u200bbeen put out and \u200bthe director of the establishment has \u200cbeen \u2060arrested, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A total of 51 people were rescued from the home \u200band \u200bthey \u2060are being looked after by the \u200bmilitary and public officials \u200bin \u2060the area,&#8221; police spokesperson Frederick Wootler said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two police \u2060teams \u200bare conducting further \u200binvestigations, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) COLOMBO, June 4 &#8211; A dozen people have died in \u200ba fire at a \u200chome for older people in Sri Lanka, police said \u200bon Thursday, while \u200banother eight have been hospitalised. The \u2060fire, which broke out \u200bat a home in \u200bAnguruwatota (55 km or 34 miles from the commercial capital Colombo), has \u200bbeen put out and \u200bthe director of the establishment has \u200cbeen \u2060arrested, police said. &#8220;A total of 51 people were rescued from the home \u200band \u200bthey \u2060are being looked after by the \u200bmilitary and public officials \u200bin \u2060the area,&#8221; police spokesperson Frederick Wootler said. Two police \u2060teams&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58248,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58246\/revisions\/58248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}