{"id":338573,"date":"2022-07-18T04:15:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T09:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=338573"},"modified":"2022-07-18T04:15:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T09:45:42","slug":"accidental-grenade-blast-kills-army-captain-jco-in-jk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/accidental-grenade-blast-kills-army-captain-jco-in-jk\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidental grenade blast kills Army Captain, JCO in J&#038;K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Army Captain and a Junior Commissioned Officer were killed in a grenade blast along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Poonch district Sunday night. The blast is reported to be accidental.<\/p>\n<p>A defence spokesperson said that the deceased along with other troops were performing their duties along the LoC in the Mendhar sector when the grenade went off.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased soldiers have been identified as Captain Anand and Naib Subedar Bhagwan Singh.<\/p>\n<p>They were evacuated to the Army\u2019s Command Hospital at Udhampur, but they succumbed to injuries, the spokesman added.\u00a0A Court of Inquiry has been ordered into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Army Captain and a Junior Commissioned Officer were killed in a grenade blast along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Poonch district Sunday night. The blast is reported to be accidental. A defence spokesperson said that the deceased along with other troops were performing their duties along the LoC in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":338574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338573"}],"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=338573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338575,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338573\/revisions\/338575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/338574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}