JAMMU: The number of police personnel killed in Thursday’s gunfight between security forces and suspected Pakistani terrorists in the forested Sufain area of Jammu’s Kathua district rose to four, as the body of another cop was spotted in the woods. The body was sighted using a drone on Friday morning after the operation to track and eliminate a group of terrorists, believed to have recently infiltrated from across the border, resumed. According to sources, two more terrorists have also been killed, taking the total number of gunmen neutralised in the operation to five.
However, there is no official confirmation of this yet. “Heavy firing continued for the second day as teams of J&K Police’s special operations group (SOG), along with Army and CRPF, moved this morning from different directions after a night halt to resume the ongoing anti-terrorist operation in the area,” said a source, adding that intermittent firing was going on till last report came in. People’s Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF), an offshoot of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), has claimed responsibility for the ongoing encounter and killings of the cops.
The firefight broke out near Juthana village under Rajbagh police station area on Thursday morning, after security forces came under heavy firing during a search operation to track a group of terrorists that had managed to escape after a brief encounter near Sanyal village in Hiranagar sector on Sunday. Sufain’s forests are about 35km from Sanyal village. Offic.
