{"id":23055,"date":"2020-04-06T16:01:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T10:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=23055"},"modified":"2020-04-06T16:01:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T10:31:32","slug":"3-more-soldiers-succumb-kupwara-toll-mounts-to-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=23055","title":{"rendered":"3 More Soldiers Succumb, Kupwara toll mounts to 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar, April 6:<\/strong> Three more soldiers, who were injured in a gunfight with militants in Kupwara woods have succumbed to their wounds, talking the number of army personnel killed in the operation to eight including a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO). Besides the soldiers, five militants were also killed in the gunfight which sporadically continued for several days reaching the peak on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Official sources said that while one soldier died on the spot, a number of others were injured in the fierce gunbattle in the woods. Four of the injured personnel including a JCO from elite para force succumbed to injuries on Sunday while three others lost the battle for life at the army\u2019s health facility today.<\/p>\n<p>On 4th day of the operation on Saturday evening, the army had rushed elite 4-para troopers to Rangdoori, Guguldara and Teen Behak area of Jumgund.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was launched initially by army\u2019s 8 JAT after intercepting movement of a group of militants on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, they said, the searches continued along Awaoora, Kumkadi, Zurhuma, Safawali, Batpora, Haihama areas by the joint team of the army\u2019s 41 RR, 57 RR, 160 TA and SOG Kupwara. (GNS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, April 6: Three more soldiers, who were injured in a gunfight with militants in Kupwara woods have succumbed to their wounds, talking the number of army personnel killed in the operation to eight including a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO). Besides the soldiers, five militants were also killed in the gunfight which sporadically continued for [&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-23055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055","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=23055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}