Last Updated on 17/07/2024 by wccexam Desk
Search operation in Jammu and Kashmir
Search operation in PoonchRajouri: Security forces launched ground and aerial search operations following suspicious movement in Poonch, Rajouri and Samba districts of Jammu and Kashmir. Officials said the army was already on high alert along the border and in the interior areas of the border districts. Officials said acting promptly on information about suspicious movement of two persons near the Betar river, the army and Special Operations Group (SOG) launched a search operation.
He said that police, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and army launched a search operation with the help of drones in the border area of Nowshera in Rajouri district and the operation is also continuing in Ramgarh sector of Samba district.
Four army personnel including a captain martyred in Doda
Earlier, four army personnel including a captain were martyred in a fierce encounter with heavily armed terrorists of Pakistani terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir. This is the third major terrorist incident in three weeks in Jammu region. A week before this attack on Monday night, terrorists had ambushed an army patrol vehicle in Kathua district, in which five soldiers were martyred and the same number of army personnel were injured.
Captain Brijesh Thapa from Darjeeling, Naik Dokkari Rajesh from Andhra Pradesh and Sepoys Bijendra and Ajay Kumar Singh from Rajasthan were injured in the firing in Desa forest area. The Rashtriya Rifles and Jammu and Kashmir Police personnel had launched a cordon and search operation there. After the encounter, security forces, including Rashtriya Rifles and Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmir Police, launched a massive operation in Desa forest area to flush out the terrorists.
In an official statement, the army said that the firing started late Monday evening in the Desa forest area where the Rashtriya Rifles and Jammu and Kashmir Police personnel had launched a cordon and search operation. The army said that four army personnel were injured in the initial firing, who later succumbed to their injuries.