In Jammu and Kashmir, eight soldiers of the Army were injured in a gunfight with terrorists in a remote forested area in the upper reaches of Kishtwar district yesterday evening. The injured soldiers were evacuated to the hospital. Most of them suffered splinter injuries in the grenade blast. The intense exchange of fire between the two sides lasted several hours before the guns fell silent.
A massive search operation is on to track and neutralise the terrorists. Reinforcements have been deployed to strengthen the cordon and neutralise the terrorists. The operation, which the Army’s Jammu-based White Knight Corps has named ‘Operation Trashi-I’, began around noon. In a post on X, the White Knight Corps said the security forces came in contact with the terrorists in the general area of Sonnar, in Chatroo, during a search operation conducted as part of ongoing joint counter-terror exercises along with J&K Police.
Operations remain underway with additional forces inducted to reinforce the cordon, supported by close coordination with civil administration and security agencies,” the Army said, commending the troops for their exceptional professionalism and resolve while responding to hostile fire under challenging terrain and conditions. One of the search teams came across a group of two to three foreign terrorists allegedly belonging to Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), who fired indiscriminately and also lobbed a few grenades in an attempt to break the cordon.
The troops retaliated, and reinforcements from the Army, CRPF and Police were rushed to further tighten the cordon. Advanced surveillance equipment, including drones and sniffer dogs, has been deployed to speed up the operation.
