{"id":579,"date":"2014-02-25T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/thousands-attend-funeral-of-7-unidentified-militants\/"},"modified":"2014-02-25T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T09:45:00","slug":"thousands-attend-funeral-of-7-unidentified-militants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Attend Funeral of 7 Unidentified Militants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Geelani calls for Strike on 28th Feb to mourn the death of 7 alleged militants killed in Dardpora<\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Lolab-300x225.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Lolab-300x225.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" \/><\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>Kupwara: <\/b>Thousands of Kashmiri villagers attended the funeral on Tuesday of seven militants killed by security forces, the highest number of guerrillas killed in a single firefight in the Himalayan region in recent months, witnesses said. Soldiers shot seven militants in a gun battle on Monday in Lolab area of Kupwara district, north of Srinagar, Kashmir\u2019s summer capital, police said. Thousands of people joined the funeral procession, a witness said. \u201cAllahu Akbar (God is Greatest),\u201d the angry mourners shouted. Security forces do not normally release the bodies of killed unidentified militants to Local people, but, wary of trouble, they decided to make an exception after thousands of villagers clashed with police to demand the bodies be handed over. The identity of the slain militants has not been established yet.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geelani calls for Strike on 28th Feb to mourn the death of 7 alleged militants killed in Dardpora Kupwara: Thousands of Kashmiri villagers attended the funeral on Tuesday of seven militants killed by security forces, the highest number of guerrillas killed in a single firefight in the Himalayan region in recent months, witnesses said. Soldiers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","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\/579","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=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/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=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}