Alert troops of the Indian army early on Monday morning neutralised two heavily armed terrorists while they were attempting to infiltrate inside the Indian territory along the line of control in Poonch sector.

A Jammu based Defence PRO Lt-Col Devender Anand said, "in the early hours of 30 August 2021, terrorists from across the Line of Control made an attempt to infiltrate in Poonch Sector. Alert Army troops detected the infiltration bid by effective use of the integrated surveillance grid. On being challenged by Army troops, there ensued a fierce firefight with the terrorist in which two terrorists were neutralised and their dead bodies along with separate AK-47 rifles have been recovered". "The operation is still in progress in the area", the Defence PRO added.

The fresh infiltration bid in the region has confirmed assessment reports  shared by the top brass of the Indian army during a series of recent high level security review meetings.

According to these reports, " the launching pads and  terrorist training camps located closer to the line of  control were witnessing hectic activity for the past several weeks".

Following these reports and in the wake of recent developments in Afghanistan the counter infiltration grid was kept in a state of high alert as the security forces were anticipating desperate bids to push fresh groups of terrorists inside the Indian territory.   Earlier, a high alert was sounded along the LoC in the run up to the 75 Independence day celebrations two weeks ago to prevent any major infiltration bid from across the  LoC.

On August 19, a terrorist was neutralised in the ThanaMandi area of Rajouri while a JCO sacrificed his life in the operation. The terrorist killed in the operation was part of the group of infiltrators who had managed to sneak inside the Indian territory in the first week of August.

Two terrorists of the same group were gunned down on August 6 in the same area of ThanaMandi.