{"id":24608,"date":"2020-04-28T22:51:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T17:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/melhoora-gunfight-2-militants-killed-civilian-army-man-injured-opt-on\/"},"modified":"2020-04-28T22:51:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T17:21:47","slug":"melhoora-gunfight-2-militants-killed-civilian-army-man-injured-opt-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24608","title":{"rendered":"Melhoora gunfight: 2 militants killed, Civilian, Army man injured, Opt on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Shopian:<\/strong> Two\u00a0militants were killed while an Army man and a civilian sustained injuries in an ongoing encounter in Melhoora village of Zainapora Sub division of South Kashmir&#8217;s Shopian district on Tuesday afternoon, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pertinently, four militants of AGH were killed in an encounter with the forces in Melhoora village last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An official told new agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that two militants have been killed in an exchange of fire while as operation is still on in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said an Army man and a civilian also sustained injuries during the gunfight, who rushed to the hospital for treatment.&nbsp;Sources said that the injured civilian has been shifted to Srinagar&#8217;s SMHS hospital for advanced treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, officials said that on specific inputs about the presence of militants, a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) was launched in the area by joint team of forces including 55 RR and Shopian Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the searches, the hiding militants fired upon the forces, which was retaliated, thus triggering an encounter, they said\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopian: Two\u00a0militants were killed while an Army man and a civilian sustained injuries in an ongoing encounter in Melhoora village of Zainapora Sub division of South Kashmir&#8217;s Shopian district on Tuesday afternoon, officials said. Pertinently, four militants of AGH were killed in an encounter with the forces in Melhoora village last week. An official told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24608","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\/24608","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=24608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24608\/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=24608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}