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Security personnel near the site of a confrontation with terrorists in Kandy district of Rajouri district on May 6 (Photo: PTI)
There has been no new contact with terrorists hiding in Kandy forest area. An official said a large-scale search to track down the Ultras is underway
Officials said that the security forces continued “Operation Trinetra” for the fourth consecutive day on Monday to track down terrorists hiding in the Kandy forest area of ​​Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.
A few people have been questioned about the suspected terrorists’ movements. But they said the security forces had not yet made any new contact with the Ultras.
“There has been no new contact with the terrorists hiding in the Kandy forest area. A massive search operation is underway to track down the Ultras,” an official said.
Five army personnel were killed and a senior officer injured in an explosion triggered by terrorists in Kesari Hills forest area of ​​Rajouri on Friday morning.
A terrorist, said to be part of a group that carried out an attack on civilians in Dangri village in Rajouri earlier this year, was killed the next morning. The officials said he believed his aide was wounded in a shootout with security forces but managed to escape.
They said the operation’s codename “Trinetra” was ongoing when the latest reports came in.
The officials said the security forces that carried out the operation were armed with surveillance equipment, sniffer dogs, drones and metal detectors.
The sources said that three security cordons have been activated in and around large parts of the zero area in the Kandy forest.
Rajouri and Poonch districts in Jammu district, which were declared terror-free over a decade ago, have been hit by a series of deadly attacks since October 2021, killing 35 people, including 26 soldiers.
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