JAMMU: Three J&Okay policemen and an equal variety of suspected Pakistani terrorists had been killed Thursday in a gunfight that erupted when safety forces looking the forested Sufain space in Kathua district of Jammu division got here below hearth from gunmen hiding within the woods.
DSP Dheeraj Katoch, two different policemen, and an Military soldier from 1 PARA (Particular Forces) had been wounded. The world has been cordoned off and reinforcements deployed.
In accordance with official sources, the slain policemen features a head constable and two constables. The our bodies had been but to be evacuated from the positioning because the operation continues.
Grenades and rocket hearth rocked the world with a number of explosions. “The gunfire continued all through the day,” an official stated late at evening, including that the wounded safety personnel had been taken to Kathua and Jammu hospitals, the place they’re reported to be in steady situation.
The attackers are believed to be the identical group that managed to flee after a quick gunfight Sunday night close to Sanyal village in Hiranagar sector, near the Pakistan border. Sufain’s forests are about 35km from Sanyal village.
The safety forces had closed in on the terrorists hiding in a distant, mountain hut — one in every of many constructed by nomadic herders who roam the world with their livestock. However they slipped away, triggering a manhunt throughout the area.
The search entered its fourth day, with the Military, NSG, BSF, CRPF, and J&Okay police deploying superior surveillance instruments, bulletproof autos, UAVs, drones, and sniffer canine.
On Monday, search groups discovered 4 loaded magazines of an M4 carbine, two grenades, a bulletproof jacket, sleeping baggage, tracksuits, and supplies for making IEDs. A breakthrough got here the following day when a girl in Dinga Amb village reported seeing two males in fight clothes asking for water. This prompted an enlargement of the search.
Safety has been tightened alongside Jammu-Pathankot nationwide freeway and hyperlink roads main to frame villages to plug potential escape routes for the terrorists.
In Rajouri district, safety forces discovered a terrorist hideout in Manyal Gali forests of Thanamandi, seizing dwell rounds, a grenade, a gasoline cylinder, a photo voltaic panel, and meals provides.
Terrorist actions sparked protests in Jammu, the place Dogra Entrance and Shiv Sena activists burned a Pakistani flag, denouncing cross-border terrorism.
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