{"id":56244,"date":"2019-03-02T12:05:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T12:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=56244"},"modified":"2019-03-02T12:05:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T12:05:48","slug":"crpf-officer-among-4-security-personnel-killed-in-kupwara-gunfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/crpf-officer-among-4-security-personnel-killed-in-kupwara-gunfight\/","title":{"rendered":"CRPF officer among 4 security personnel killed in Kupwara gunfight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Srinagar<br> A fortnight after the deadly Pulwama attack, four security personnel, including a CRPF officer, were killed and six others injured in a gunfight in Kupwara district of north Kashmir today. A civilian was killed in clashes near the encounter site, while the operation is still underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gunfight broke out between militants and a joint team of security forces in Babagund, Langate, during a cordon and search operation late last night.The J&amp;K Police, 22 Rashtriya Rifles and CRPF\u2019s 92 Battalion had launched the operation in the village, nearly 70 km from Srinagar, on specific inputs about presence of militants in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During search, the militants opened indiscriminate fire around 1 am, triggering a gunfight in which a house was destroyed. There was a lull in firing, prompting the security forces to presume that the militants had been killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the security forces combed the debris this afternoon, a militant hiding in a nearby house opened indiscriminate fire, sources said. \u201cIn the fire, four security personnel were killed and six injured, including a CRPF Commandant,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A police spokesman identified the slain security personnel as CRPF Inspector Pintu and Constable Vinod, besides policemen Naseer Ahmad Kholi and Mustafa Barah.<\/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 fortnight after the deadly Pulwama attack, four security personnel, including a CRPF officer, were killed and six others injured in a gunfight in Kupwara district of north Kashmir today. A civilian was killed in clashes near the encounter site, while the operation is still underway. The gunfight broke out between militants and a [&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":56245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56244","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\/56244","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=56244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56246,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56244\/revisions\/56246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}