{"id":313405,"date":"2019-06-17T15:18:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T15:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313405"},"modified":"2019-06-17T15:18:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T15:18:03","slug":"ied-blast-in-pulwama-9-soldiers-injured-3-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ied-blast-in-pulwama-9-soldiers-injured-3-critical\/","title":{"rendered":"IED blast in Pulwama, 9 soldiers injured, 3 critical"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_311840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-311840\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-311840\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/army-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/army-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/army-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/army-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/army.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-311840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">SRINAGAR: At least nine army men have been wounded in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast at Aarihal village in south Kashmir\u2019s Pulwama district on Monday evening, reports said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Incidentally, the blast came two\u00a0 days after\u00a0Pakistan was said to have shared information regarding the threat of a possible attack in Pulwama district, probably near Awantipora, a newspaper report had said.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">A police official said that at around 6:00 pm militants triggered an IED planted on the roadside at Aarihal when a vehicle of 44 RR was passing. Soldiers on the vehicle have been injured, some of them critically.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">After the blast, militants are said to have fired upon the vehicle. \u201cThe vehicle had suffered extensive damage,\u201d an official added.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The injured security personnel have been\u00a0 \u00a0rushed to Army\u2019s 92 base hospital in Srinagar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Additional reinforcements of the army, police and SOG have been rushed to the spot and a massive search operation has been\u00a0launched\u00a0\u00a0to nab the attackers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR: At least nine army men have been wounded in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast at Aarihal village in south Kashmir\u2019s Pulwama district on Monday evening, reports said. Incidentally, the blast came two\u00a0 days after\u00a0Pakistan was said to have shared information regarding the threat of a possible attack in Pulwama district, probably near Awantipora, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[11505,10852,1141,2270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313405"}],"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=313405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313406,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313405\/revisions\/313406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}