{"id":285493,"date":"2018-03-05T13:02:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T07:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=285493"},"modified":"2018-03-05T13:02:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T07:32:47","slug":"6-dead-in-shopian-encounter-in-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/6-dead-in-shopian-encounter-in-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"6 dead in Shopian encounter in Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018_3largeimg205_Mar_2018_010154787.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-285494 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018_3largeimg205_Mar_2018_010154787-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"2018_3$largeimg205_Mar_2018_010154787\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-id=\"285494\" \/><\/a>The toll in South Kashmir\u2019s Shopian encounter has risen to six on March 5 as the authorities recovered two more bodies.<br \/>\n&#8220;Two more bodies were recovered in Shopian district this morning,&#8221; a police spokesperson said.<br \/>\nThe bodies are suspected to be of the second militant and an individual.<br \/>\nAccording to reports, the Jammu and Kashmir police have also recovered two weapons from the suspected militants.<br \/>\nThe suspected militant is reportedly identified as Ashiq Hussain Bhat of Lashkar-e-Taiba whose body was found seven kilometer from Pahnoo where the Mobile Vehicle Check Post incident occurred.<br \/>\nOn the night of March 4, security forces had killed a militant and three youths in a shootout after the mobile check post of the army was fired upon. According to the police, the militant was Aamir Ahmed Malik, a resident \u00a0Shopian&#8217;s Harmeen village.<br \/>\nA joint MVCP (mobile vehicle check post) in Shopian had signaled a car to stop, but it did not, according to a police official.<br \/>\nAn Army spokesperson said the youths were overground militant workers, but local residents claimed they were civilians traveling in the car.<br \/>\nWhile the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti has expressed grief over the incident, the killings have\u00a0triggered an outrage in the Valley<br \/>\n&#8220;Deeply distressed by more deaths of civilians caught in the crossfire in Shopian. My heartfelt condolences to the deceased families,&#8221; said Mufti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The toll in South Kashmir\u2019s Shopian encounter has risen to six on March 5 as the authorities recovered two more bodies. &#8220;Two more bodies were recovered in Shopian district this morning,&#8221; a police spokesperson said. The bodies are suspected to be of the second militant and an individual. According to reports, the Jammu and Kashmir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":285494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,39],"tags":[760,761,762,277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}