{"id":25715,"date":"2020-05-19T12:52:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T07:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/jk-policeman-and-a-crpf-jawan-injured-in-encounter-with-militants-at-nawakadal-srinagar\/"},"modified":"2020-05-19T12:52:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T07:22:22","slug":"jk-policeman-and-a-crpf-jawan-injured-in-encounter-with-militants-at-nawakadal-srinagar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=25715","title":{"rendered":"JK Policeman and a CRPF Jawan injured in encounter with militants at Nawakadal, Srinagar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Mobile internet, calling facility snapped<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The J&amp;K police on Tuesday said it had engaged militants in an encounter in a densely populated area in Srinagar, forcing authorities to snap mobile Internet and calling facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAn encounter has started at Kanemazar Nawakadal area of Srinagar. The Jammu and Kashmir Police and the Central Reserve Police Force are on the job,\u201d said a police spokesman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A police official said gunshots were heard during a pre-dawn operation launched around 2 a.m. in the densely populated pocket of the old city in Srinagar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the initial bout of firing was followed by a long silence and a search is on to nab the hiding militants, the police said. The authorities snapped Internet and voice calling on mobile phones \u201cas a precautionary measure\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two security personnel \u2014 one CRPF jawan and one policeman \u2014 sustained injuries in the Srinagar encounter, police officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA heavy exchange of fire is going on from both sides,\u201d said the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Locals said they heard loud explosions near the encounter site. Meanwhile, there was an incident of stone pelting in the old city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With inputs from <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/encounter-erupts-in-srinagars-kanemazar-area\/article31619876.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile internet, calling facility snapped The J&amp;K police on Tuesday said it had engaged militants in an encounter in a densely populated area in Srinagar, forcing authorities to snap mobile Internet and calling facilities. \u201cAn encounter has started at Kanemazar Nawakadal area of Srinagar. The Jammu and Kashmir Police and the Central Reserve Police Force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25715","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\/25715","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=25715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}