A joint team of security forces Sunday launched a massive crackdown at two separate locations after picking up the movement of a group of foreign terrorists in the Mendhar tehsil of Poonch and Bani area of Kathua district.
Initially, a brief exchange of firing took place at both places, and reinforcements were also rushed to pin down the terrorists.
Intermittent firing was reported at different intervals during the day.
According to a police spokesman, acting on a tip-off, a joint search operation was launched by the police and Army in the Pathanateer area near Gursai top in Mendhar sub-division on Saturday evening.
He said the search party came under fire from the hiding terrorists, triggering a gunfight.
In the second anti-terrorist operation, the search operation was launched by the security forces in the general area of Bani in Kathua.
Till the time of filing the report, the security forces were maintaining a tight cordon and carrying out searches in the thickly forested areas to hunt down the terrorists hiding in the area.
