{"id":13697,"date":"2018-12-21T16:58:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T11:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=13697"},"modified":"2018-12-21T16:58:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T11:28:50","slug":"army-officer-killed-another-injured-in-sniper-attack-along-loc-in-jumgund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=13697","title":{"rendered":"Army officer killed, another injured in sniper attack along LoC in Jumgund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Srinagar, Dec 21 (GNS):<\/i><\/b><span><b><i> <\/i><\/b><\/span><i>An army officer was killed and another was injured critically in a \u2018sniper attack\u2019 by Pakistan army along the Line of Control in north Kashmir&#8217;s Kupwara district on Friday late afternoon. <\/i><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" 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;\"><i>Official sources told GNS that Pakistan army in \u201cviolation of ceasefire\u201d opened the sniper fire upon the army\u2019s 2\/8 GR posts in Jumgund area along the LoC.<\/i><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" 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;\"><i>Two army officers suffered serious injuries in the attack and the injured were immediately evacuated to military hospital Drugmulla where Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) Subidar Gamar Thapa (42) succumbed to injuries, they said. <\/i><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" 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;\"><i>The injured has been identified as Junior Commissioned officer (JCO) Subidar Raman Thapa and was later referred to army\u2019s 92 base hospital Badamibagh Srinagar for advanced treatment.<\/i><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" 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;\"><i>Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Kupwara Ambarkar Shriram Dinkar also confirmed the death of the JCO and injuries to another.<\/i><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" 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;\"><i>He said that details with regard to the incident is being ascertained. (GNS) <\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Dec 21 (GNS): An army officer was killed and another was injured critically in a \u2018sniper attack\u2019 by Pakistan army along the Line of Control in north Kashmir&#8217;s Kupwara district on Friday late afternoon. Official sources told GNS that Pakistan army in \u201cviolation of ceasefire\u201d opened the sniper fire upon the army\u2019s 2\/8 GR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13697","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\/13697","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=13697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697\/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=13697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}