{"id":786,"date":"2025-10-08T20:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=786"},"modified":"2025-10-08T20:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:21:23","slug":"two-soldiers-go-missing-in-kokernag-forests-searches-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/two-soldiers-go-missing-in-kokernag-forests-searches-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Two soldiers go missing in Kokernag forests, searches on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Umaisar Gull Ganie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anantnag, Oct 08: Two Army soldiers have gone missing in the Ahlan Gadole forest belt of Kokernag area in south Kashmir\u2019s Anantnag district, prompting a massive search operation by security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Official sources told the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the two soldiers went missing on Monday evening during an operation in the dense forests of Ahlan Gadole. \u201cContact with them could not be established since last evening,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe missing soldiers were part of a small operational team that was carrying out searches following specific inputs about the presence of terrorists in the area,\u201d sources said, adding, \u201cA sudden change in weather conditions disrupted the operation, and during that time, two soldiers went missing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The area has recently witnessed snowfall, and the thick foliage and rough terrain are making the search operation difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said additional Army personnel have been deployed, and every corner of the forest is being combed. \u201cChoppers and drones have been pressed into service to trace the missing soldiers,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Army said that two soldiers have gone missing after a severe snowstorm in the Gadole forest area of Kokernag in Anantnag.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, the Army\u2019s Chinar Corps wrote, \u201cOn the intervening night of 6\/7 Oct, an operational team on the Kishtwar range confronted a severe snowstorm and whiteout conditions in the mountains of South Kashmir. Since then, two soldiers have gone out of communication. Intense search and rescue operations have been launched but are being hampered due to prevailing adverse weather conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ahlan Gadole area has witnessed major encounters in the past. In September 2023, Army Colonel Manpreet Singh, Major Aashish Donchak, and Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Humayun Muzamil were killed in a gunfight in the same forests. In another encounter last year, two soldiers and a civilian were also killed. (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Umaisar Gull Ganie Anantnag, Oct 08: Two Army soldiers have gone missing in the Ahlan Gadole forest belt of Kokernag area in south Kashmir\u2019s Anantnag district, prompting a massive search operation by security forces. Official sources told the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the two soldiers went missing on Monday evening during an operation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}