{"id":308609,"date":"2019-01-29T05:25:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T05:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308609"},"modified":"2019-01-29T05:25:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T05:25:03","slug":"jharkhand-5-naxals-killed-in-encounter-with-security-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jharkhand-5-naxals-killed-in-encounter-with-security-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Jharkhand: 5 Naxals killed in encounter with security forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_300524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-300524\" style=\"width: 494px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300524\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/naxal-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/naxal-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/naxal-446x420.jpg 446w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/naxal.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-300524\" 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;\">At least five Naxals were killed on Tuesday morning in an encounter with security forces in Jharkhand.<\/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 the sources, five naxals were neutralised and one critically injured in West Singhbhum district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the early hours on Tuesday, security forces comprising of the Central Reserve Police Force&#8217;s (CRPF\u2019s) 209\u00a0CoBRA battalion\u00a0and\u00a0state police launched a special operation to target Naxals in the areas, said officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the ensuing exchange of fire, the forces managed to neutralise five naxals and injure one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, no casualties and\u00a0injuries\u00a0of troops involved in the operation, have been reported so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Two AK-47 rifles, a 303 rifle and pistols were also recovered from the spot.<\/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>At least five Naxals were killed on Tuesday morning in an encounter with security forces in Jharkhand. According to the sources, five naxals were neutralised and one critically injured in West Singhbhum district. In the early hours on Tuesday, security forces comprising of the Central Reserve Police Force&#8217;s (CRPF\u2019s) 209\u00a0CoBRA battalion\u00a0and\u00a0state police launched a special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2090,2014],"tags":[955,1181,10711],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308609"}],"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=308609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308610,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308609\/revisions\/308610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}