{"id":304418,"date":"2018-10-19T05:45:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T05:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304418"},"modified":"2018-10-19T05:45:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T05:45:21","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-seven-soldiers-injured-in-ied-explosion-in-pulwama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-seven-soldiers-injured-in-ied-explosion-in-pulwama\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: Seven soldiers injured in IED explosion in Pulwama"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_301653\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-301653\" style=\"width: 556px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistani-forces-violate-ceasefire-along-loc-in-uri-in-jammu-and-kashmir\/army-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-301653\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301653\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Army-1-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Army-1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Army-1.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-301653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Seven soldiers were injured when militants triggered an\u00a0improvised\u00a0explosive device\u00a0(IED) in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s\u00a0Pulwama\u00a0district, police said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to an official, militants triggered the IED planted under a bridge on Trichal-Lassipora road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The explosion took place at around 9:45 pm on Thursday, when an armoured Army vehicle was passing through the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe IED explosion was followed by firing by the militants. Army retaliated and a brief firing exchange took place,\u201d officer said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Of the seven soldiers, three with\u00a0serious injuries\u00a0were airlifted to an\u00a0Army hospital and four others were taken to military health facility in Srinagar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The security forces cordoned off the entire area and launched searches to nab the attackers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven soldiers were injured when militants triggered an\u00a0improvised\u00a0explosive device\u00a0(IED) in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s\u00a0Pulwama\u00a0district, police said on Friday. According to an official, militants triggered the IED planted under a bridge on Trichal-Lassipora road. The explosion took place at around 9:45 pm on Thursday, when an armoured Army vehicle was passing through the area. \u201cThe IED explosion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1913,1141,2270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304418"}],"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=304418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304419,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304418\/revisions\/304419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}