{"id":17729,"date":"2019-05-18T15:27:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T09:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=17729"},"modified":"2019-05-18T15:27:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T09:57:01","slug":"awantipora-encounter-police-identifies-slain-trio-as-members-of-hizb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=17729","title":{"rendered":"Awantipora Encounter: Police identifies slain trio as members of Hizb"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><strong>Says one among them was involved in killing of army soldier Aurangzeb<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><em>Srinagar, May 18 (GNS): Police on Saturday said that one among the three militants slain on Saturday morning in a gunfight at Panzgam area of Awantipora in south Kashmir\u2019s Pulwama district was involved in killing of an army soldier Aurangzeb last year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SSP Awantipora Tahir Saleem told GNS that the three militants who were killed in Panzgam today were affiliated with Hizbul Mujahideen outfit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He identified the slain trio as Showkat Ahmad Dar of Panzgam Pulwama, Irfan Ahmad of Sopore and Muzzafar Ahmad of Tahab Pulwama. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The officer said that Showkat Dar was directly involved in the killing of the army soldier Rifleman Aurangzeb. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Earlier, the encounter broke out in Panzgam village after a joint team of army&#8217;s 55 RR and SOG launched a cordon-and-search operation following inputs about the presence of some militants.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On June 14, 2018, Aurangzeb, a rifleman with 44 Rashtriya Rifles &#8211; was kidnapped and shot dead by militants in south Kashmir&#8217;s Pulwama when he was travelling in a private vehicle, on his way home in Poonch.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Aurangzeb was part of an officer&#8217;s team which killed Hizbul Mujahideen commander Sameer Tige on May 1, 2018. (GNS)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says one among them was involved in killing of army soldier Aurangzeb Srinagar, May 18 (GNS): Police on Saturday said that one among the three militants slain on Saturday morning in a gunfight at Panzgam area of Awantipora in south Kashmir\u2019s Pulwama district was involved in killing of an army soldier Aurangzeb last year. SSP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17729","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\/17729","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=17729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17729\/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=17729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}