{"id":301220,"date":"2018-08-07T07:40:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T07:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301220"},"modified":"2018-08-07T07:40:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T07:40:15","slug":"gurez-encounter-four-army-troopers-2-militants-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/gurez-encounter-four-army-troopers-2-militants-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Gurez Encounter: Four Army troopers, 2 militants killed"},"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-299672 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/bsf-3-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/bsf-3-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/bsf-3-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/bsf-3.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/>Four army men, including an Army major and three soldiers, and two suspected militants were killed on August 7 in an encounter along the Line of Control (LOC) in Gurez, north Kashmir&#8217;s Bandipora District while foiling an infiltration bid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An army officer said that army men of 36 RR intercepted a group of infiltrators near Bakhtor area of Gurez along LOC and the forces challenged the movement of infiltrators and they opened gunfire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An unidentified Army officer revealed that Major KP Rane, soldiers Jamie Singh, Vikramjeet and Mandeep were killed in the gunfire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Senior Superintendent of Police of Bandipora, Zulfikar Ahmad, reportedly said that the firing started around <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1421812287\"><span class=\"aQJ\">1 am.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The army officer, however, said that bodies of the two militants who were also killed in the incident are yet to be recovered.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four army men, including an Army major and three soldiers, and two suspected militants were killed on August 7 in an encounter along the Line of Control (LOC) in Gurez, north Kashmir&#8217;s Bandipora District while foiling an infiltration bid. An army officer said that army men of 36 RR intercepted a group of infiltrators near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1177,4048,1141,2165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301220"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301221,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301220\/revisions\/301221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}