{"id":855,"date":"2015-01-28T15:26:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T15:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=855"},"modified":"2015-01-28T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T15:26:17","slug":"gun-battle-leaves-four-dead-in-indian-administered-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/gun-battle-leaves-four-dead-in-indian-administered-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun battle leaves four dead in Indian-administered Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At least four people have been killed in fierce exchange of fire between a group of armed men and New Delhi\u2019s security forces in the disputed Indian-administered Kashmir.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indian soldiers and police launched an operation Tuesday based on intelligence that a group of fighters were present in the village of Hundoora, near the region\u2019s main city of Srinagar.<\/p>\n<p>The violent clashes started after Kashmir fighters opened fire on the troops surrounding a house in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Indian security sources say an army colonel, a senior police officer and two Kashmiri fighters were killed during the fierce clashes in the disputed region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the ensuing gun battle two terrorists and an army colonel were killed,\u201d media outlets quoted a top Indian security official as saying on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A police officer wounded during the firing died in hospital, the official added.<\/p>\n<p>Kashmir has been the scene of violent clashes in recent years. Indian troops are in constant clashes with the fighters seeking independence in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The New Delhi government forces have also responded by imposing curfews and restrictions on the movement of people.<\/p>\n<p>Indian authorities have deployed police and paramilitary troops to most parts of Srinagar and several other major towns to prevent street demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>Kashmir lies at the heart of more than 67 years of hostility between India and Pakistan. Both neighbors claim the region in full but have partial control over it.<\/p>\n<p>The neighbors agreed on a ceasefire in 2003, and launched a peace process the following year. Since then, there have been sporadic clashes, with both sides accusing the other of violating the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people have been killed in Kashmir unrest over the past two decades.<\/p>\n<p>JR\/HSN\/SS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least four people have been killed in fierce exchange of fire between a group of armed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,70,138,113],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-conflict","tag-india","tag-kashmir","tag-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Indian-Troops-in-Kashmir.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-dN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}