Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 30: Security forces today extended the ongoing search operations to new areas in Kathua and Rajouri districts to hunt down terrorists following recent encounters in the region.
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While a policeman was martyred and a terrorist was killed and two police officers injured in a fierce gun battle in remote Kog-Mandli forest village in Billawar tehsil of Kathua district on Saturday evening, a brief exchange of fire took place between terrorists and security forces in Manial Gali in Thannamandi area of Rajouri district on Sunday evening.
A massive search operation is going on for the third day in Kathua with cordon extending to over a dozen other villages near the scene of Saturday’s encounter, the officials said.
They said at least three more foreign terrorists of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) are believed to be hiding in the forest belt.
In Rajouri, the officials said the terrorists fled after a brief encounter with security forces at Manial Gali in Thannamandi area Sunday evening.
The operation was called off late Sunday and resumed and extended to new areas early this morning, the officials said.
They said there was no fresh contact with the terrorists so far.
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