{"id":10766,"date":"2018-01-06T18:21:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T12:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=10766"},"modified":"2018-01-06T18:21:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T12:51:48","slug":"ied-blast-kills-four-policemen-in-sopore-igp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=10766","title":{"rendered":"IED blast kills four policemen in Sopore: IGP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"color: rgb(121, 121, 121); font-size: 14px;\"><b>Srinagar: <\/b>An Assistant Sub-Inspector among the four policemen were Saturday killed after the militants exploded the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Sopore town of north Kashmir\u2019s Baramulla district, police said.<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(121, 121, 121); font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 4px 0px 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(121, 121, 121); font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em;\"><i>Officials said that the four policemen including ASI identified as identified as Irshad Ahmad of Doda, Ghulam Nabi of Sopore, Muhammad Amin of Kupwara and Ghulam Rasool of Baramulla district were killed in Sopore blast.<br \/>\nThe blast occurred on the day when the entire area was observing complete shutdown to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Sopore massacre.<br \/>\nInspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir Range, Munir Ahmad Khan while talking to reporters at Sopore said that the militants had placed the powerful IED near the shop in the area. \u201cAs the area was observing shutdown, the cops were deployed on law and order duty there during which the IED exploded at 10:00 am and resulted into the killing of four policemen who were belonging to IRP 3rd battalion,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe IGP informed that the IED blast also caused damage to six to seven shops in the area.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the wrath laying ceremony of the four slain policemen was held at District Police Line (DPL) Sopore during which tributes were paid to the cops.&nbsp;<br \/>\nMilitant outfit Jesh-e-Mohammad has claimed the responsibility for Sopore IED blast. (KNS)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: An Assistant Sub-Inspector among the four policemen were Saturday killed after the militants exploded the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Sopore town of north Kashmir\u2019s Baramulla district, police said.&nbsp; Officials said that the four policemen including ASI identified as identified as Irshad Ahmad of Doda, Ghulam Nabi of Sopore, Muhammad Amin of Kupwara and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}