{"id":5526,"date":"2018-03-01T12:47:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T12:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5526-buddhists-attack-mosques-muslim-shops-in-sri-lanka\/"},"modified":"2018-03-01T12:47:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T12:47:32","slug":"buddhists-attack-mosques-muslim-shops-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5526-buddhists-attack-mosques-muslim-shops-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhists attack mosques, Muslim shops in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tense situation that had prevailed in the Ampara town in eastern Sri Lanka Monday night after a group of Buddhists attacked a Muslim shop and a mosque, has presently been brought under control, police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>The tense situation that had prevailed in the Ampara town in eastern Sri Lanka Monday night after a group of Buddhists attacked a Muslim shop and a mosque, has presently been brought under control, police said on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n<h4>At least five people were wounded and several shops and a mosque damaged in the clash between majority Sinhalese Buddhists and minority Muslims, police said, according to the Colombo Page.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>A police spokesman said an investigation has been launched to apprehend persons responsible for the attack on the mosque and several shops in Ampara town.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Renewed tension has been growing between the two communities since last year, with some hardline Buddhist groups accusing Muslims of forcing people to convert to Islam and vandalizing Buddhist archaeological sites.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-16446\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/images_2018_03_01_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/images_2018_03_01_07.jpg 600w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/images_2018_03_01_07-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-16444\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/images_2018_03_01_08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/images_2018_03_01_08.jpg 600w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/images_2018_03_01_08-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tense situation that had prevailed in the Ampara town in eastern Sri Lanka Monday night after a group of Buddhists attacked a Muslim shop and a mosque, has presently been brought under control, police said on Tuesday. \u00a0 The tense situation that had prevailed in the Ampara town in eastern Sri Lanka Monday night &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[363,214,205,347,1107],"class_list":["post-5526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-attack","tag-mosque","tag-muslim","tag-police","tag-srilanka"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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