Indian Security forces on Friday resumed an ‘anti-terrorist’ operation in a remote forested area in the Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, a day after 3 militants and an equal number of policemen were killed in an encounter there, reports rediff.com.
Seven others, including an officer, were injured in a 'gunbattle' on Thursday.
After halting for the night, search parties moved from different directions with the first light of the day, with the primary focus on retrieving the bodies of the deceased, finding a missing policeman and neutralising any other threat, they said.
They said security forces are moving cautiously to the targeted area but there was no response from the terrorist side and it is believed that all of them are dead.
However, only three bodies of the terrorists could be sighted through drones and the fate of two others remains unknown.
The operation, centred near Jakhole village in the Ghati Juthana area of Rajbagh, against the terrorists started around 8 am on Thursday amid intensified operations led by police against a group of suspected Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) ultras who had recently infiltrated from across the International Border in Hiranagar sector, the officials sad.
However, it was not immediately clear whether it was the same group that had been evading an earlier cordon in Sanyal forest of Hiranagar or another batch of infiltrated terrorists.
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