Two terrorists were gunned down by the joint team of security forces in Samboora area of Awantipora on Sunday while alert jawans of the Border Security Force (BSF) foiled a major infiltration bid by at least five heavily armed terrorists along the International border in Samba sector of Jammu frontier.
Till the time of filing the report, search operations were still going on at the encounter site in Awantipora.
However, twitter handle of the Kashmir Zone police while confirming the reports posted an update, “one more 'unidentified' terrorist eliminated in the ongoing operation, total two so far, search operations still going on”.
Meanwhile, in Jammu BSF spokesman in a statement said, “Alert BSF troops foiled another major infiltration bid from Pakistani side in the Samba sector on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.”
The spokesman said, the movement of a group of five terrorists was noticed on the Pakistani side of the IB in the Samba sector by alert BSF troops. It was the second such attempt through the Samba sector and the same was foiled. Earlier, terrorists from Pakistan had tried to intrude on the intervening night of September 14 and 15,” said a BSF spokesperson.
A BSF spokesman said, taking advantage of the darkness, five heavily armed terrorists tried to enter into Indian territory but were engaged by the alert BSF troops. They had reached close to the IB taking advantage of dense growth of wild grass. The BSF personnel ordered the terrorists to stop, but they started firing at the troops. Pakistan Rangers personnel provided cover fire to these terrorists. However, the alert BSF troops started retaliatory firing at the terrorists,” he said.
The terrorists retreated to the Pakistani soil following the exchange of fire. Following repeated incidents of cross border firing and arms dropping using drones close to the International border across Jammu frontier the border security grid has been kept in a state of high alert to foil these nefarious designs of Pakistan.