Srinagar
\nFour militants were killed and a Special Forces soldier injured in a fierce gunfight in a thick forest area of north Kashmir\u2019s Sopore sub-district on Wednesday, officials said.<\/p>\n
The militants were killed in Baramulla\u2019s Dooniwari forest area as the gunfight raged through the day. Army\u2019s Special Forces units were pressed into service, a defence spokesman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFour militants have been killed while the operation is still on,\u201d defence spokesman Rajesh Kalai told The Tribune.<\/p>\n
The exchange of fire between militants and security forces began early morning as security forces cordoned off the jungle area after the police suspected presence of five militants in the area.<\/p>\n
A soldier from Army\u2019s elite Parachute Regiment was injured in the initial firefight and was hospitalised with a bullet injury in the thigh, the officials said.<\/p>\n
Helicopters were pressed into service to transport soldiers even as the counter-insurgency operation was put on hold for the night.<\/p>\n
A police official said the cordon was intact. \u201cIt is a thick forest area and movement is difficult during evening and night, so we have put the operation on hold and will resume it at the first light on Thursday,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Srinagar Four militants were killed and a Special Forces soldier injured in a fierce gunfight in a thick forest area of north Kashmir\u2019s Sopore sub-district on Wednesday, officials said. The militants were killed in Baramulla\u2019s Dooniwari forest area as the gunfight raged through the day. Army\u2019s Special Forces units were pressed into service, a defence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jammu-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38665,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38663\/revisions\/38665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}