{"id":13305,"date":"2018-12-08T22:02:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T16:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=13305"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:02:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T16:32:01","slug":"two-militants-killed-soldier-sog-man-injured-in-mujgund-gunfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=13305","title":{"rendered":"Two militants killed; soldier, SOG man injured in Mujgund gunfight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong><\/i><i> Two militants were killed while SOG man and a soldier were injured in an ongoing gunfight at Mujgund on Srinagar-Bandipora road on Saturday.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The encounter ensued late in the afternoon when a joint team of army&#8217;s 5 RR, SOG and CRPF launched a cordon and search operation at Mujgund following inputs about the presence of some militants.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>As the joint team zeroed in on a suspected house, militants hiding inside opened fire which was retaliated by the joint team, triggering off a fierce gunfight, an official told GNS.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The gunfight continued even after there were intervals of lull, the official said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A soldier and an SOG man were injured during the course of the gunfight and have been removed to a hospital, he said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A senior police officer told GNS that two militant bodies were visible but have not been retrieved so far.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The firing has stopped as of now and searches are being launched to retrieve the bodies, he said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;There were inputs about the presence of three militants. While two militants have been killed, the fate of another one is unknown so far,&#8221; the officer said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Meanwhile, sources said that the three residential houses have suffered damages, one of them substantially. (GNS)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Two militants were killed while SOG man and a soldier were injured in an ongoing gunfight at Mujgund on Srinagar-Bandipora road on Saturday. The encounter ensued late in the afternoon when a joint team of army&#8217;s 5 RR, SOG and CRPF launched a cordon and search operation at Mujgund following inputs about the presence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13305","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=13305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}