{"id":44811,"date":"2018-10-19T11:09:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T11:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=44811"},"modified":"2018-10-19T11:09:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T11:09:30","slug":"valley-shuts-over-srinagar-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/valley-shuts-over-srinagar-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley shuts over Srinagar killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A shutdown was observed on Thursday across the Valley against the killing of militants and a \u201ccivilian\u201d during a gunfight here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"storyText\">In the summer capital, shops and business establishments remained closed and public transport remained off the roads. However, scanty private vehicles plied in the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The government had also imposed restrictions in the volatile old city to ensure peace. Security forces were also deployed in large number in the other parts of the city. The authorities have not restored the high-speed Internet which was suspended on Wednesday after the gunfight broke in the old city.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"storyText\">There were reports of shutdown in all towns and other parts of the Valley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>No major untoward incident took place in the Valley during the shutdown, a police officer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome minor incidents of stone-throwing were reported during the day,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown call was given by separatists, including Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik.<\/p>\n<p>Two local Lashkar-e-Toiba militants \u2014 Mehraj-ud-Din Bangroo and Fahad Mushtaq Waza \u2014 and a member of J&amp;K Police\u2019s Special Operation Group, Kamala Kishore, were killed in the gunfight in the Fateh Kadal area on Wednesday. Rayees Ahmad, the son of the house owner, where the militants were hiding was also killed. While the police termed Rayees to be the accomplice of militants, his family claimed that he was not associated with the ultras and was running their family business.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people attended the funeral prayers of the trio in the old city amid \u201cpro-freedom\u201d slogans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar A shutdown was observed on Thursday across the Valley against the killing of militants and a \u201ccivilian\u201d during a gunfight here on Wednesday. In the summer capital, shops and business establishments remained closed and public transport remained off the roads. However, scanty private vehicles plied in the city. The government had also imposed restrictions [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44811","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\/44811","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=44811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44813,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44811\/revisions\/44813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}