{"id":11460,"date":"2018-03-21T11:40:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T06:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=11460"},"modified":"2018-03-21T11:40:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T06:10:40","slug":"sog-man-injured-in-ongoing-kupwara-gunfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=11460","title":{"rendered":"SOG man injured in ongoing Kupwara gunfight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b>Srinagar<\/b><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34,34,34);\"><i><b>:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34,34,34);\"><i> A policeman of Special Operation Group (SOG) was injured in an ongoing encounter at Check Fatehkhan, Halmatpora area of north Kashmir\u2019s Kupwara district.<\/i><span><i><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white; margin: 0in0in10pt; line-height: 18.0473px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34,34,34);\"><i>Official sources told news agency GNS that the SOG personnel Javid Ahmad sustained bullet wounds in his leg today morning and was evacuated to nearby military hospital for treatment.<\/i><span><i><\/i><\/span><\/span><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white; margin: 0in0in10pt; line-height: 18.0473px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34,34,34);\"><i>While the firefight was intermittently going on throughout the night, it intensified this morning and was going on when this report was filed.<\/i><span><i><\/i><\/span><\/span><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white; margin: 0in0in10pt; line-height: 18.0473px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34,34,34);\"><i>The army has claimed to have recovered three militant bodies from the encounter site.<\/i><span><i><\/i><\/span><\/span><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white; margin: 0in0in10pt; line-height: 18.0473px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34,34,34);\"><i>Director General of Police DGP also confirmed the killing of only three militants so far in the encounter.<\/i><span><i><\/i><\/span><\/span><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white; margin: 0in0in10pt; line-height: 18.0473px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34,34,34);\"><i>In a tweet, the top police officer of the JK said that three militants have been killed so far.<\/i><span><i><\/i><\/span><\/span><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white; margin: 0in0in10pt; line-height: 18.0473px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34,34,34);\"><i>The encounter started when a group of militants believed to be seven in number fired upon a joint team of army and SOG at Check Fatehkhan forests.<\/i><span><i><\/i><\/span><\/span><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white; margin: 0in0in10pt; line-height: 18.0473px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34,34,34);\"><i>The army has also rushed Para commandos to the area yesterday evening. (GNS)<\/i><\/span><i><\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"signature-text\" style=\"color: rgb(136,136,136); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: left;\"><span><i><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"signature-text\" style=\"color: rgb(136,136,136); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: left;\"><span><i> <\/i><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: A policeman of Special Operation Group (SOG) was injured in an ongoing encounter at Check Fatehkhan, Halmatpora area of north Kashmir\u2019s Kupwara district. Official sources told news agency GNS that the SOG personnel Javid Ahmad sustained bullet wounds in his leg today morning and was evacuated to nearby military hospital for treatment. While the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11460","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\/11460","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=11460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/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=11460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}