{"id":16703,"date":"2019-02-18T08:25:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T02:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=16703"},"modified":"2019-02-18T08:25:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T02:55:30","slug":"army-officer-among-four-soldiers-killed-another-injured-in-pulwama-gunfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=16703","title":{"rendered":"Army officer among four soldiers killed, another injured in Pulwama gunfight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Srinagar, February 18: <\/i><\/strong><i>Four armymen including an officer were killed and a soldier was injured in a gunfight at Pinglena area of south Kashmir&#8217;s Pulwama district on Monday.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Reports reaching GNS said that a joint team of army&#8217;s 55 RR, CRPF and SOG launched a cordon wee hours today.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A police offcial told GNS that the cordon was laid in the area following credible inputs about the presence of some militants.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>As the joint team of forces intensified the searches and fired some warning shots towards the suspected spot, the militants opened fire triggering off a gunfight, he said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>During the course of gunfight, four army soldiers including a Major were killed.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The officer identified the slain soldiers as Major DS Dondial, Head Constable Save Ram, Sepoy Ajay Kumar and Seooy Hari Singh. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;The critically injured armyman has been identified as Sepoy Gulzar Mohd who has been evacuated to army&#8217;s 92 base hospital Badamibagh Srinagar for treatment&#8221;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A civilian namely Mushtaq Ahmad is said to have received critical wounds during the exchange of gunfight, he said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>When reports last came in, the searches were going on in the area to trace out the militants. (GNS)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, February 18: Four armymen including an officer were killed and a soldier was injured in a gunfight at Pinglena area of south Kashmir&#8217;s Pulwama district on Monday. Reports reaching GNS said that a joint team of army&#8217;s 55 RR, CRPF and SOG launched a cordon wee hours today. A police offcial told GNS that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16703","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\/16703","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=16703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703\/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=16703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}