{"id":348588,"date":"2024-04-30T01:55:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T07:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=348588"},"modified":"2024-04-30T01:55:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T07:25:56","slug":"a-village-defence-guard-member-killed-by-terrorists-in-jammu-and-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/a-village-defence-guard-member-killed-by-terrorists-in-jammu-and-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"A Village Defence Guard member killed by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/04\/A-Village-Defence-Guard-member-killed-by-terrorists-in-Jammu-and-Kashmir-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-348589\" width=\"431\" height=\"277\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A Village Defence Guard (VDG) member was killed in a gunfight with terrorists in a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Udhampur district on Sunday, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exchange of fire occurred in Panara village of Basantgarh around 7:45 am when a patrolling party of police and VDGs encountered the suspected terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohd Sharief, a VDG member from Khaned, was critically injured in the firing and later succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A massive search operation is underway to flush out the terrorists, who are believed to have recently infiltrated from Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to official sources, there was information about the movement of two separate groups of terrorists who infiltrated recently from Kathua to Basantgarh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One group, comprising five members, was confronted, while the other group, consisting of four members, is believed to be moving through the Machedi top area bordering Kathua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Army has airdropped Special Forces in the forest area, and a massive search operation is underway to track and neutralize the terrorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Village Defence Guard (VDG) member was killed in a gunfight with terrorists in a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Udhampur district on Sunday, officials said. The exchange of fire occurred in Panara village of Basantgarh around 7:45 am when a patrolling party of police and VDGs encountered the suspected terrorists. Mohd Sharief, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":348589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[18159,15686,16187,17875],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348588"}],"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=348588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348590,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348588\/revisions\/348590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/348589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}