{"id":29054,"date":"2020-07-01T15:01:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T09:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=29054"},"modified":"2020-07-01T15:01:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T09:31:30","slug":"crpf-says-militants-killed-civilian-in-j-ks-sopore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=29054","title":{"rendered":"CRPF says militants killed civilian in J-K&#8217;s Sopore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong>\u00a0Militants hiding in a mosque killed an &#8220;old man&#8221; during the attack on security forces in Sopore town of Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, the CRPF said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>A jawan of the force and the civilian were killed in the attack at Model Town Chowk in Sopore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The paramilitary force, in a statement issued in Delhi, said the violent incident began when its troops started getting down from their bus at the location to &#8220;occupy their respective spots of deployment.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Militants hiding in the attic of a nearby mosque started firing indiscriminately on the troops resulting in injuries to four CRPF personnel,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A civilian vehicle which was coming from Sopore and going towards Kupwara was caught in the firing range of terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;An old man who was driving the vehicle stopped the car and got down from vehicle to move away for safe spot but got killed by terrorists firing,&#8221; the force said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Later, it said, a young boy was rescued by security forces personnel who had taken positions nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>A photo of a young boy sitting on a man&#8217;s body, his white shirt soaked with blood, was widely circulated on social media stating it to be from the attack spot in Sopore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The Jammu-Kashmir Police later shared the picture of the boy being carried by a security personnel on its official Twitter handle, saying it &#8220;rescued a three-year-old boy from getting hit by bullets during terrorist attack in Sopore.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>CRPF head constable Deep Chand Verma was killed in the gunbattle, while constables Bhoya Rajesh, Deepak Patil and Nilesh Chawde are injured and admitted to a hospital, the force said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The troops were from the G company of CRPF&#8217;s 179th battalion.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:\u00a0Militants hiding in a mosque killed an &#8220;old man&#8221; during the attack on security forces in Sopore town of Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, the CRPF said on Wednesday. A jawan of the force and the civilian were killed in the attack at Model Town Chowk in Sopore. The paramilitary force, in a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29054","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\/29054","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=29054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29054\/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=29054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}