{"id":313342,"date":"2019-06-14T16:26:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T16:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313342"},"modified":"2019-06-14T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T16:26:08","slug":"jharkhand-five-policemen-shot-dead-in-maoist-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jharkhand-five-policemen-shot-dead-in-maoist-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Jharkhand: Five policemen shot dead in Maoist attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_312657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-312657\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312657\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/naxal-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/naxal-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/naxal.jpg 609w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-312657\" 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 policemen were shot dead by Maoists on Friday in Saraikela district of Jharkhand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The attack took place today evening when the policemen were patrolling in 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;\">The Maoists also looted the weapons of the policemen and ran away with them, sources said.<\/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 officials, the five police personnel\u2014two assistant sub-inspectors and three constables came under attack by Maoists and were shot dead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Further investigation into the matter is underway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das has condemned the Maoist attack and said that the sacrifice of the policemen won\u2019t go in vain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn this moment of grief, the government and the people of Jharkhand stand with the families of those killed,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least five policemen were shot dead by Maoists on Friday in Saraikela district of Jharkhand. The attack took place today evening when the policemen were patrolling in the area. The Maoists also looted the weapons of the policemen and ran away with them, sources said. According to the officials, the five police personnel\u2014two assistant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2090,2014],"tags":[955,11497],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313342"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313344,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313342\/revisions\/313344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}