An military automobile in flames after a terror assault in Mendhar in Poonch district on April 20, 2023. (PTI)
Following important injury to their on-ground employees community, terrorists are more and more finishing up assaults in opposition to safety forces in forests than in cities, sources instructed News18
Terrorist outfits in Jammu and Kashmir appear to have shifted their technique to resemble that of Naxals, finishing up extra assaults in forests than in cities, sources instructed News18 on Friday.
Sources mentioned following important injury to their on-ground employees community, terrorists now are staying in jungles and retreating after finishing up assaults. They perceive that motion of safety forces by means of forest space is troublesome and delicate.
Security forces on Friday picked up on-ground employees of terror outfits, hoping their questioning would lead to perpetrators of such assaults.
Security forces have, in the meantime, launched an enormous search operation within the dense forests of the Bata-Doriya space after a terrorist assault in Poonch killed 5 Indian Army personnel and injured one.
The complete space has been cordoned off whereas drones and sniffer canine are getting used to sniff out the terrorists who could be hiding within the space, they mentioned.
Officials mentioned excessive alert has been sounded within the twin border districts of Rajouri and Poonch amid shut vigil alongside the Line of Control. Traffic on the Bhimber Gali-Poonch highway was stopped following the incident and other people have been suggested to go to Poonch through Mendhar, officers mentioned.
Five Army personnel had been killed and one other was significantly injured on Thursday after their automobile caught fireplace following a terrorist assault in Poonch. The troopers had been from a Rashtriya Rifles unit deployed for counter-terror operations.
The Army mentioned the automobile the troopers had been travelling in got here below fireplace from unidentified terrorists and it caught fireplace due to the seemingly use of grenades.
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