{"id":24420,"date":"2020-04-25T08:54:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T03:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/two-militants-aide-killed-in-pulwama-encounter\/"},"modified":"2020-04-25T08:54:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T03:24:14","slug":"two-militants-aide-killed-in-pulwama-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24420","title":{"rendered":"Two militants, aide killed in Pulwama encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in the Goripora area of Awantipora<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/encounter-between-security-forces-and-militants-underway-in-pulwama\/article31429663.ece\">PTI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two militants and a \u201chardcore\u201d militant associate were killed in an encounter with security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in the Goripora area of Awantipora in the south Kashmir district in the early hours of Saturday after receiving specific information about the presence of some militants there, a police official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The search operation turned into an encounter after the militants fired upon the forces, who retaliated, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the ensuing gunfight, two militants and one \u201chardcore\u201d associate of the militants were killed, the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said searches were going on in the area and further details were awaited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in the Goripora area of Awantipora PTI Two militants and a \u201chardcore\u201d militant associate were killed in an encounter with security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said. Security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in the Goripora area of Awantipora in the south Kashmir [&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-24420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24420","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=24420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}