{"id":300691,"date":"2018-07-22T07:23:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T07:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300691"},"modified":"2018-07-22T07:23:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T07:23:22","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-three-militants-killed-in-encounter-in-kulgam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-three-militants-killed-in-encounter-in-kulgam\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: Three militants killed in encounter in Kulgam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299334 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/armie-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/armie-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/armie-432x420.jpg 432w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/armie.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/>Security Forces in Jammu and Kashmir killed three militants in an encounter on Sunday Morning. \u00a0Killed militants were part of the group which killed a police constable in South Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the officials, a cordon-and-search operation was launched by Army in Khudwani area of Kulgam district in south Kashmir to trap the militants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c\u200fTerrorists group that tortured our colleague CT Mohd Saleem of Kulgam &amp; killed him brutally are all trapped in an encounter with J&amp;K Police\/Army\/CRPF in Khudwani Kulgam,\u201d state DGP Shesh Paul Vaid tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300692 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/jksp-300x124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/jksp-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/jksp-768x317.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/jksp-696x287.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/jksp.jpg 901w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The search operation turned into gun battle after militants fired on the security forces, prompting retaliation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The three bodies of militants have been recovered from the encounter site along with their weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As a precautionary measure, the authorities have suspended the mobile internet services in Kulgam and Anantnag districts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Saturday, Jammu and Kashmir Police constable,\u00a0Muhammad Saleem Shah was abducted by terrorists from his house in Mutalhama area of Kulgam. The constable was undergoing training in Kathua in Jammu and was on leave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Later, he was found dead with multiple bullet injuries in Qaimoh village of south Kashmir\u2019s Kulgam district.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security Forces in Jammu and Kashmir killed three militants in an encounter on Sunday Morning. \u00a0Killed militants were part of the group which killed a police constable in South Kashmir. According to the officials, a cordon-and-search operation was launched by Army in Khudwani area of Kulgam district in south Kashmir to trap the militants. \u201c\u200fTerrorists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":299334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[3821,1177,1141,2852,2017,3484],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300691"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300693,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300691\/revisions\/300693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}