{"id":306490,"date":"2018-12-03T05:10:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T05:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306490"},"modified":"2018-12-03T05:10:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T05:10:48","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-encounter-breaks-out-between-security-forces-and-militants-in-shopian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-encounter-breaks-out-between-security-forces-and-militants-in-shopian\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: Encounter breaks out between security forces and militants in Shopian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-299334 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/armie-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" 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: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An encounter broke out on Monday morning between security forces and militants in Sangran village of Shopian district in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A cordon and search operation was launched by security forces after receiving a tip off about the presence of militants in Sangran village.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As the security forces zeroed in on the suspected area, the hiding militants opened fire leading to the encounter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Security forces said, at least two militants are believed to be hiding in the residential area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jammu and Kashmir police tweeted, \u201cExchange of fire between Security forces &amp; #Terrorists at #Shopian. Information is preliminary in nature.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More details are awaited.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An encounter broke out on Monday morning between security forces and militants in Sangran village of Shopian district in Jammu and Kashmir. A cordon and search operation was launched by security forces after receiving a tip off about the presence of militants in Sangran village. As the security forces zeroed in on the suspected area, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1141,10031,2018],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306490"}],"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=306490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306491,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306490\/revisions\/306491"}],"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=306490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}