{"id":36507,"date":"2013-04-09T18:27:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T15:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=36507"},"modified":"2013-04-09T18:27:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T15:27:19","slug":"5-indian-soldiers-including-officer-killed-in-south-sudan-36507","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/5-indian-soldiers-including-officer-killed-in-south-sudan-36507\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Indian soldiers including officer killed in South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36509\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36509\" style=\"width: 380px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36509\" alt=\"Indian peacekeepers in South Sudan: File Pic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/India-Peacekeepers-Nationalturk-9.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/India-Peacekeepers-Nationalturk-9.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/India-Peacekeepers-Nationalturk-9-280x210.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian peacekeepers in South Sudan: File Pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>At least five Indian soldiers including an officer, part of a UN peacekeeping mission, were killed in an attack by rebels in the volatile state of Jonglei in South Sudan on Tuesday.<\/h1>\n<p>New Delhi, April 9\/Nationalturk- \u00a0At least five Indian soldiers including an officer, part of a UN peacekeeping mission, were killed in an attack by revels in the volatile state of Jonglei in South Sudan on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A convoy of Indian peace keepers, comprising 32 soldiers, was attacked by suspected militia group with small arms and Rocket-propelled Grenades (RPGs) at Gurmuck in Jonglei state of South Sudan at around 0930 local time today,\u201d Indian army sources said.<\/p>\n<p>They said the Indian soldiers also returned the fire and fierce exchange of fire between the two sides continued for more than an hour. \u201cIn the ensuing firefight, five Indian soldiers including a Lt Colonel and a Junior Commission Officer were killed. Four soldiers including an officer were injured in the attack and have been hospitalized.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Injured soldiers shifted to UN hospital<\/h2>\n<p>Sources said the injured soldiers and officer have been shifted to UN mission hospital in South Sudan. \u201cThe arrangements are being made to shift the bodies of the dead soldiers to India as early as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They said around 2200 Indian soldiers and officers are deployed in South Sudan under a UN peacekeeping mission.<\/p>\n<p>Since South Sudan got independence in July 2011, it has witnessed ethnic strife, with Pibor county, the main base of UN peacekeeping force, being the centre of much of the violence.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faiz Ahmad \/ NationalTurk India News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least five Indian soldiers including an officer, part of a UN peacekeeping mission, were killed in an attack by rebels in the volatile state of Jonglei in South Sudan on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,30,80,63,1,118,85,101,14],"tags":[11380,49480,37852,49479,2546,7546,49475,8216,49474,49482,14090,49481,49485,49472,44978,49478,49477,21839,49476,49483,49484,45814,49473],"class_list":["post-36507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-media-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-attack","tag-fierce-exchange","tag-firefight","tag-gurmuck","tag-india","tag-indian-army","tag-indian-peace-keepers","tag-indian-soldiers","tag-jonglei","tag-junior-commission-officer","tag-killed","tag-lt-colonel","tag-pibor-county","tag-rebels","tag-rocket-propelled-grenades","tag-rpgs","tag-small-arms","tag-south-sudan","tag-suspected-militia-group","tag-un-hospital","tag-un-mission-hospital","tag-un-peacekeeping-mission","tag-volatile-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}