{"id":6106,"date":"2016-10-11T11:09:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T05:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2016-10-11T11:09:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T05:39:33","slug":"pampore-government-forces-fire-rockets-gunfight-enters-second-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=6106","title":{"rendered":"Pampore: Government forces fire rockets as gunfight enters second day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Government forces on Tuesday morning resumed operation against militants hiding inside a government building near Pampore town of Kashmir&#8217;s Pulwama district.<\/p>\n<p>Two forces personnel and a policeman were injured as the militants fired from inside the Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Institute (JKEDI) in the fighting that began on Monday.<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Operation against the holed up militants has been resumed. Floodlights were used during the night to ensure that the militants were prevented from escaping under the cover of darkness,&#8221; a senior police official said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rockets and heavy automatic gunfire were used on Tuesday morning to engage the militants.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 70-room, seven-storey building is located at Pampore on the banks of the river Jhelum and 12 km from the Srinagar city centre.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The joint operation was launched by the army, the Special Operations Group of the state police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The main building of the institute was attacked in February when militants captured it and launched a major attack on forces. Six persons &#8211; a civilian, three soldiers and two paramilitary troopers &#8212; were killed then before three militants were shot dead. <strong><em>IANS<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:\u00a0Government forces on Tuesday morning resumed operation against militants hiding inside a government building near Pampore town of Kashmir&#8217;s Pulwama district. Two forces personnel and a policeman were injured as the militants fired from inside the Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Institute (JKEDI) in the fighting that began on Monday. &#8220;Operation against the holed up militants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6106","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\/6106","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=6106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/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=6106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}