Jammu: Security forces on Sunday killed three terrorists in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. Earlier, two were killed, during the ongoing Operation Trashi-I to three, officials said.
The latest gunfight took place in the Chatroo area, where joint teams of the Army, police and the CRPF have been carrying out searches in dense forest belts for the past several days.
The Army’s White Knight Corps said troops of the Counter-Insurgency Force (Delta), acting on specific intelligence inputs, re-established contact with the hiding militants around 11 am in difficult terrain. In the ensuing exchange of fire, one militant was killed.
Officials said the body and a weapon were recovered from the site. The identity and group affiliation of the slain militants were being ascertained.
This is the second encounter in this area this month. Earlier, a gunfight broke out in the same densely forested area on February 4.
More than a dozen encounters have taken place during the last year between the security forces and the terrorists in the Chatroo area of Kishtwar.
It is believed that a group of foreign terrorists are operating in the area, who keep on changing locations between Kishtwar, Doda and Udhampur districts.
The Army, J&K Police and the CRPF are on a hot chase of this group of Pakistani terrorists, and it is precisely because of the intense trail that the group is moving from one place to another instead of trying to attack the security forces.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has given clear orders for neutralisation of Pakistani terrorists in the hilly districts of the Jammu division.
The Union Home Minister called for a mission-mode approach to usher in complete peace in the union territory during his last visit to Jammu on February 7.
