{"id":589,"date":"2014-02-24T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/7-militants-killed-in-lolab-encounter-army\/"},"modified":"2014-02-24T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T14:45:00","slug":"7-militants-killed-in-lolab-encounter-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"7 militants killed in Lolab encounter: Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1902725_631166970288771_391539570_n.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1902725_631166970288771_391539570_n.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-IN\"><b>Srinagar:<\/b> Army<\/span><span><span lang=\"EN-IN\" style=\"color: #222222; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;\">&nbsp;<span data-term=\"goog_1109011126\" style=\"z-index: 0;\" tabindex=\"0\"><\/span><\/span><span><span style=\"z-index: -1;\"><span lang=\"EN-IN\" style=\"color: #222222; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;\">on Monday<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span lang=\"EN-IN\" style=\"color: #222222; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-IN\">claimed to have killed seven militants in an encounter at Lolab forests in north Kashmir\u2019s Kupwara district, official sources told GNS<\/span><span><span lang=\"EN-IN\" style=\"color: #222222; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;\">&nbsp;<span data-term=\"goog_1109011127\" style=\"z-index: 0;\" tabindex=\"0\"><\/span><\/span><span><span style=\"z-index: -1;\"><span lang=\"EN-IN\" style=\"color: #222222; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;\">Monday<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-IN\">.<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-IN\">Army\u2019s 18 RR laid a cordon around the Madkulla Behak forests of Dardpora village in Lolab after receiving specific information over the presence of militants in the woods. When the joint team started coming operations, the militants hiding in the dense forests opened heavy fire upon them.<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-IN\">\u201cArmy returned the fire triggering off a fierce gun-battle. In the encounter that continued till late evening, seven militants were killed,\u201d sources said, adding \u201cAdditional reinforcements of 28 RR and SOG Takipora were sent to the forests after the encounter raged,\u201d<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-IN\">Meanwhile, Srinagar based defence spokesperson told GNS that army\u2019s patrol was fired upon by a group of militants in the forest area; the fire was retaliated by effective firing resulting in killing of 7 unidenitified militants.&nbsp;<\/span>\u201cA huge cache of arms and other war like stores have been recovered from the site\u201d, he said, adding the operation is still in progress as three more militants are still under trap. (GNS)<\/div>\n<div><o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Army&nbsp;on Monday&nbsp;claimed to have killed seven militants in an encounter at Lolab forests in north Kashmir\u2019s Kupwara district, official sources told GNS&nbsp;Monday. Army\u2019s 18 RR laid a cordon around the Madkulla Behak forests of Dardpora village in Lolab after receiving specific information over the presence of militants in the woods. When the joint team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","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\/589","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=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/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=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}