An military automobile in flames after a terror assault in Mendhar in Poonch district on April 20, 2023. (PTI)
Following vital harm 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 informed 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 informed News18 on Friday.
Sources mentioned following vital harm 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 way of forest space is tough 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 a large 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 whole space has been cordoned off whereas drones and sniffer canine are getting used to sniff out the terrorists who may 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 street was stopped following the incident and folks have been suggested to go to Poonch through Mendhar, officers mentioned.
Five Army personnel have been killed and one other was significantly injured on Thursday after their automobile caught hearth following a terrorist assault in Poonch. The troopers have been from a Rashtriya Rifles unit deployed for counter-terror operations.
The Army mentioned the automobile the troopers have been travelling in got here underneath hearth from unidentified terrorists and it caught hearth due to the possible use of grenades.
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