{"id":51583,"date":"2022-06-12T13:17:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T07:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/99-militants-killed-so-far-this-year-igp-kashmir\/"},"modified":"2022-06-12T13:17:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T07:47:45","slug":"99-militants-killed-so-far-this-year-igp-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=51583","title":{"rendered":"99 militants killed so far this year: IGP Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>Says 3 local LeT militants killed in Pulwama gunfight, one among them was involved in killing of a police constable, non-local labour<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Srinagar, Jun 12 :<\/em><\/strong> Ninety- nine militants have been killed in different encounters so far in Jammu and Kashmir, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir Zone, Vijay Kumar said on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talking to reporters here in Srinagar, IGP as per the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said that three militants affiliated with Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) were killed in a gunfight today at Drabgam area of South Kashmir&#8217;s Pulwama district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that a cordon was laid jointly by Army, police and CRPF in the village after Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Pulwama received information about the presence of three local LeT militants there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe encounter started yesterday evening in which 3 local LeT militants were killed while two AK47 rifles and a pistol were recovered from the encounter site,\u201d he said, adding that one among the slain was involved in the killing of a police constable Riyaz Naikoo on May 13 and also in the attack on labourers at brick kiln in Budgam in which one non-local labour was killed and two others sustained injuries on June 02.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked about the number of militants killed, IGP said that 99 militants have been killed this year so far\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says 3 local LeT militants killed in Pulwama gunfight, one among them was involved in killing of a police constable, non-local labour Srinagar, Jun 12 : Ninety- nine militants have been killed in different encounters so far in Jammu and Kashmir, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir Zone, Vijay Kumar said on Sunday. Talking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51583","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\/51583","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=51583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51583\/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=51583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}