{"id":314036,"date":"2019-07-17T04:39:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T04:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314036"},"modified":"2019-07-17T04:39:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T04:39:24","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-exchange-of-fire-underway-in-sopore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-exchange-of-fire-underway-in-sopore\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: Exchange of fire underway in Sopore"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_302537\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302537\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302537\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/army-highway.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/army-highway.jpg 545w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/army-highway-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/army-highway-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An exchange of fire began on Wednesday morning between security forces and terrorists at Gund Brath area of Sopore in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Baramulla district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The gunbattle started after security forces launched cordon and search operation in the area after receiving specific information about terrorist presence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to an official, as the security forces closed in, the hiding terrorists fired upon them and the latter retaliated, triggering an encounter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kashmir Zone Police tweeted, \u201cBrief #exchange of #fire between #securityforces &amp; #terrorists in #Sopore. Area under #cordon. Details shall follow. @JmuKmrPolice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Further details are awaited.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exchange of fire began on Wednesday morning between security forces and terrorists at Gund Brath area of Sopore in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Baramulla district. The gunbattle started after security forces launched cordon and search operation in the area after receiving specific information about terrorist presence. According to an official, as the security forces closed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":302537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1141,2585],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314036"}],"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=314036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314037,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314036\/revisions\/314037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}