{"id":12265,"date":"2018-06-29T09:27:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T03:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=12265"},"modified":"2018-06-29T09:27:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T03:57:26","slug":"militants-army-exchange-gunfire-in-kupwara-forests-searches-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=12265","title":{"rendered":"Militants, army exchange gunfire in Kupwara forests, searches launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 22.9693px;\"><b><i>Srinagar:<\/i><\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 22.9693px;\"><span><i> <\/i><\/span><i>Militants and government forces exchanged fire in the forest area of Kachama in north Kashmir&#8217;s Kupwara district last night.<\/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>Official sources told GNS that a group of militants and army&#8217;s search party had a stand-off late last night at the upper belt of Kachama forests known as Tunga Top.<\/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>The exchange of firing continued intermittently till pre-dawn hours today, they 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>Senior Superintendent of Police (<\/i><span><i>SSP<\/i><\/span><i>) Kupwara <\/i><span><i>Ambarkar Shriram<\/i><\/span><i> Dinkar also confirmed the stand-off and said that the firing has stopped as of now.<\/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>&#8220;The search operation has been launched in the area to find out anybody or to trace out the militant group,&#8221; he said. 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