{"id":16861,"date":"2019-02-21T23:41:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=16861"},"modified":"2019-02-21T23:41:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T18:11:08","slug":"after-8-hours-siege-gunfight-breaks-out-in-sopore-village-internet-service-snapped-restrictions-imposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=16861","title":{"rendered":"After 8-hours siege, gunfight breaks out in Sopore village; Internet service snapped, restrictions imposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Srinagar:<\/i><\/strong><i> After 8-hours long siege, a gunfight broke out in Warpora area of Sopore in north Kashmir&#8217;s Baramulla district on Thursday. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Reports reaching GNS that army&#8217;s 22 RR, CRPF and SOG cordoned off Warpora area at around 2:35 pm today. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A police officer also confirmed that the joint team of forces laid a siege in the area following specific information about the presence of some militants.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>As such the forces intensified the searches and fired some warning shots towards the suspected spot, the militants, believed to be two in number, opened fire, triggering off a firefight, he said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>When reports last came in the intermittent exchange of firing was going on.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>In wake of the gunfight, the authorities have suspended internet services in Sopore and its adjoining areas.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Meanwhile, authorities have also ordered imposition of restrictions in Sopore.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;In view of the apprehension of law and order problem, restrictions under sec 144 CRPC are hereby imposed on the gathering of more than 4 persons in entire Sub-division Sopore with effect from evening 21-02- 2019 till further orders,&#8221; reads an order issued by the Additional District Magistrate Sopore. (GNS)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: After 8-hours long siege, a gunfight broke out in Warpora area of Sopore in north Kashmir&#8217;s Baramulla district on Thursday. Reports reaching GNS that army&#8217;s 22 RR, CRPF and SOG cordoned off Warpora area at around 2:35 pm today. A police officer also confirmed that the joint team of forces laid a siege in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16861","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\/16861","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=16861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861\/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=16861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}