Srinagar:
4 police personnel have been killed in motion throughout an encounter with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, sources mentioned on Thursday. Two of the terrorists have additionally been shot useless whereas three to 4 terrorists are nonetheless holed up.
5 safety personnel, together with a deputy superintendent of police, have been injured and are present process remedy at a hospital.
Groups from the Military, the Nationwide Safety Guard, the Border Safety Power, Police, the Particular Operations Group, and the Central Reserve Police Power had been finishing up searches within the space for the previous 5 days. There was an alternate of fireplace on Sunday and a neighborhood resident had knowledgeable the police on Tuesday that two males in military uniform had requested her for water whereas they had been having meals within the space.
Police suffered casualties on Thursday after cops entered deep contained in the forests and engaged in shut quarters fight with closely armed terrorists.
Within the ensuing gun battle, two terrorists had been killed. However, earlier than neutralising the terrorists, 4 policemen had been killed in motion and 5 others had been injured, mentioned an official concerned within the operation.
“To this point we’ve not retrieved our bodies of fallen cops on account of hostile terrain and presence of extra terrorists there,” mentioned an official.
Nalin Prabhat, Director Basic of Jammu and Kashmir Police, is main this main anti-terrorist operation in Kathua. Mr Prabhat confirmed the killing of two terrorists and exuded confidence that different holed-up terrorists can even be neutralised throughout the operation.
On Sunday, a minimum of 5 terrorists had been trapped at Sanyal forests. After a fierce gun battle with the police, they managed to flee and reached Juthana, 20 km away. They left behind magazines of US-made M4 rifles on the first encounter web site, indicating that they had been outfitted with state-of-the-art weapons.
On Thursday morning, police cornered them once more on the Juthana forests and a fierce encounter erupted.
The operation was supported by helicopters, drones, bulletproof automobiles, and sniffer canine and safety businesses had questioned a number of individuals and picked up three suspects. On Tuesday, the forces had recovered two grenades amongst different materials.
The tracksuits discovered amongst a big cache of ammunition and different supplies within the Sanyal forests had been an identical to these worn by the 4 Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) terrorists killed within the Assar forests and Doda in June and August final yr, a report by information company IANS mentioned.
The terrorists are believed to have inflitrated into India on Saturday.
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