{"id":12022,"date":"2018-05-18T19:10:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T13:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=12022"},"modified":"2018-05-18T19:10:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T13:40:21","slug":"three-militants-killed-in-north-kashmir-gunfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=12022","title":{"rendered":"Three militants killed in north Kashmir gunfight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 22.9693px;\"><i><b>Srinagar, May 18:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 22.9693px;\"><span><i> <\/i><\/span><i>Army on Friday claimed to have killed three militants in a gunfight at Brinjal forest area of Vilgam, Handwara in north Kashmir&#8217;s 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; margin: 0in0in10pt; line-height: 18.0473px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 22.9693px;\"><i>An army official told news agency GNS that soldiers of 15 RR intercepted a group of militants believed to be infiltrators at<\/i><span><i><\/i><\/span><span><i> <\/i><\/span><i>Brinjal forest adjacent to Shahnagar Jat Gali, around 7 kilometres away from Tehsil headquarter Vilgam.<\/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; margin: 0in0in10pt; line-height: 18.0473px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 22.9693px;\"><i>\u201cThe group of militants opened fire upon the forces which were retaliated by the troops triggering off a gunfight. The militants fired indiscriminately and in the gunfight that ensued, three infiltrators were gunned down,\u201d he said.<\/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; margin: 0in0in10pt; line-height: 18.0473px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 22.9693px;\"><i>\u201cWe are ascertaining their outfit affiliation,\u201d the official said, adding the operation is still going on. (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<p style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); 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;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, May 18: Army on Friday claimed to have killed three militants in a gunfight at Brinjal forest area of Vilgam, Handwara in north Kashmir&#8217;s Kupwara district. An army official told news agency GNS that soldiers of 15 RR intercepted a group of militants believed to be infiltrators at Brinjal forest adjacent to Shahnagar Jat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12022","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\/12022","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=12022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12022\/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=12022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}