{"id":11583,"date":"2018-04-06T17:36:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T12:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=11583"},"modified":"2018-04-06T17:36:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T12:06:22","slug":"militant-killed-in-pulwama-gunfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=11583","title":{"rendered":"Militant killed in Pulwama gunfight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Srinagar, April 6:<\/i><\/b><i> A militant was killed in an encounter at Kangan area of Pulwama in South Kashmir on Friday afternoon.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Official sources told GNS that a militant believed to be a local was killed in the operation.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The gunfight stops now and the search operation is underway, they said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A police office while confirming the killing and said that the identity of the slain is being ascertained.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Earlier, SSP Pulwama Mohammad Aslam Choudary had told GNS that a cordon-and-search operation was launched by a joint team of army\u2019s 55 RR, police, and CRPF at Kangan orchards following inputs about the presence of some militants.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>As the joint party approached the suspected spot, the militants hiding in the area opened fire triggering off an encounter, the officer had said. (GNS)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, April 6: A militant was killed in an encounter at Kangan area of Pulwama in South Kashmir on Friday afternoon. Official sources told GNS that a militant believed to be a local was killed in the operation. The gunfight stops now and the search operation is underway, they said. A police office while confirming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11583","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\/11583","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=11583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583\/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=11583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}