{"id":58205,"date":"2013-05-18T21:03:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T01:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/?p=18517"},"modified":"2013-05-18T21:03:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T01:03:03","slug":"army-officer-killed-in-gunfight-with-militants-on-loc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2013\/05\/18\/army-officer-killed-in-gunfight-with-militants-on-loc\/","title":{"rendered":"Army officer killed  in gunfight with militants on LoC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, May 18 (ANI): A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) was killed on Saturday during an infiltration bid by militants in the Macchil sector along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Kupwara District.<br \/>\nOne other soldier was also injured.<br \/>\nAccording to media reports, troops of the 56 Rashtriya Rifles noticed some suspicious movement of two to four persons along in the Macchil sector at around 3 a.m. and challenged the intruders. an Army spokesman said.<br \/>\nThe militants opened fire on army positions, including on the Dingeri Post, which was retaliated.<br \/>\nIn the ensuing gunfight, JCO Arun Kumar was killed, while another soldier Solanki Raju was injured.<br \/>\nThe militants fled from the area owing to the stiff challenge posed by the army troops, the spokesman said.<br \/>\nThe ultras left behind two assault rifles and some war-like stores before crossing back into PoK territory, he said.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/army-officer-killed-in-gunfight-with-militants-on-loc\/\">http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/army-officer-killed-in-gunfight-with-militants-on-loc\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, May 18 (ANI): A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) was killed on Saturday during an infiltration bid by militants in the Macchil sector along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Kupwara District. One other soldier was also injured. According to media reports, troops of the 56 Rashtriya Rifles noticed some suspicious movement of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[985,4],"tags":[986,990],"class_list":["post-58205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manipur-mail","category-news","tag-manipur-mail-2","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}