JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday said there was no snatching of weapons by terrorists during the two-day-long gunfight in a remote forested area in the Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir. All unaccounted weapons and other belongings of the four slain policemen have been recovered, a police spokesperson said. Four policemen and […]
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Conspiracies hatched from across border are ‘killing our children’: Deputy CM
JAMMU — Conspiracies hatched from across the border are “killing our children”, Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary said on Saturday, advising Pakistan to give up its “terrorism” as violence can achieve nothing. Talking to reporters after the wreath laying ceremony of head constable Jagbir Singh in the lawns of police headquarters at […]
Kathua Encounter: Bodies of 3 policemen retrieved; only 2 terrorists killed, says DGP
JAMMU — The bodies of three of the four Jammu and Kashmir Police personnel killed in an encounter with Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists were retrieved on Friday as the fierce gunfight between security forces and the ultras entered its second day in the remote forested region of Jammu’s Kathua, officials said here. Director General of Police […]
Body of fourth policeman sighted near Kathua encounter site, operation on
JAMMU — The body of another policeman was sighted using a drone on Friday near the spot where a gunfight took place earlier in a remote forested area in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. This is the fourth cop to be have died in the gunfight in which three terrorists are also […]
After night halt, anti-terrorist operation resumed in Kathua
JAMMU — Security forces on Friday resumed an anti-terrorist operation in a remote forested area in the Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, a day after three terrorists and an equal number of policemen were killed in an encounter there, officials said. Seven others, including an officer, were injured in a gunbattle on Thursday. After […]
Three militants, three policemen killed in Kathua encounter; operation continues
JAMMU — Three militants and an equal number of policemen were killed and seven others including a deputy superintendent of police injured in a fierce day-long gunfight in a remote forested area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, officials said on Thursday. The encounter started around 8 am amid intensified operations led by Jammu and […]
Kathua Encounter: Two militants killed, five security personnel injured; operation underway
JAMMU — A fierce gun battle in a remote forested area of Kathua district has left two terrorists dead and five security personnel injured as the security forces intensified their operation to neutralise an infiltrating group of about five militants, officials said on Thursday. It was not immediately clear whether it was the same group […]
Search operation enters fourth day in Kathua to track down group of infiltrators
JAMMU — A massive multi-tier combing operation to track down a group of infiltrating terrorists continued for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday in forested areas of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district. A local woman informed the police on Tuesday that two men in army uniform asked her for water while they were having food […]
Massive search operation to track down terrorists enters third day in Kathua
JAMMU — A massive search operation to track down a group of infiltrating terrorists continued for the third day in a forested area in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, officials said. The operation, led by Director General of Police Nalin Prabhat, was launched on Sunday evening in the Hiranagar sector following an […]
M-4 carbine magazines, victuals found in Kathua as search operation on for infiltrators
JAMMU — A large quantity of material, including several magazines of M-4 carbine and a bulletproof jacket, was discovered as a search operation to neutralise a group of infiltrating terrorists continued on Monday in Kathua district, officials said. The operation was launched Sunday evening in the Hiranagar sector and was intensified with additional deployment of […]