{"id":21428,"date":"2023-12-22T14:55:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T09:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=21428"},"modified":"2023-12-22T14:55:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T09:55:43","slug":"three-indian-soldiers-killed-in-iiojk-gunfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/news\/three-indian-soldiers-killed-in-iiojk-gunfight\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Indian soldiers killed in IIOJK gunfight"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Troops sustained three fatal and three non-fatal casualties,’ says Indian Army spokesperson<\/p>\n

Three soldiers were killed in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) during a gun battle in the disputed Himalayan territory, the army said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Two army vehicles were conducting an operation in Rajouri district south of Srinagar, the occupied region’s biggest city, when they were fired upon by separatists, a defence spokesperson told\u00a0AFP<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Troops sustained three fatal and three non-fatal casualties,” the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n

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Army operations were continuing in the area and further details of the incident were “being ascertained”, they said.<\/p>\n

The fighting comes just days after India’s top court upheld a 2019 decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to revoke the limited autonomy of the Muslim-majority occupied territory.<\/p>\n

Separatist groups have waged an insurgency in IIOJK since 1989, demanding independence or a merger with Pakistan.<\/p>\n

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The conflict has left tens of thousands of civilians, soldiers and freedom fighters dead.<\/p>\n

Last month, five Indian soldiers and two suspected separatists were killed in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Troops sustained three fatal and three non-fatal casualties,’ says Indian Army spokesperson Three soldiers were killed in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) during a gun battle in the disputed Himalayan territory, the army said Thursday. Two army vehicles were conducting an operation in Rajouri district south of Srinagar, the occupied region’s biggest city, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,3],"tags":[9069,4347,139],"class_list":["post-21428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","category-world","tag-iiojk","tag-kashmir","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}