Jammu, Jan 13: In order to find the terrorists who had opened fire on an Army vehicle convoy the day before, authorities in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district launched a cordon and search operation on Saturday, according to officials. The attack on the convoy on Friday did not result in any casualties. The location is densely forested, and the officials stated that troops are combing it with sniffer dogs and helicopter observation. According to a senior officer, the cordon-and-search operation was under progress to locate the attackers. The cars that were attacked on Friday night in the Poonch region near Krishna Ghati were returning security officers to a camp.According to officials, the attack resulted in no injuries, and the commanding commander and other Army men were unharmed. On December 21, a similar ambush on Army trucks occurred in the Dera Ki Gali district of Poonch’s Dhatya Morh. In the attack, four Army personnel lost their lives. Terrorists have recently carried out targeted assaults on the Army and civilians in the districts of Rajouri and Poonch, they claimed. In four terrorist strikes in Rajouri and Poonch in 2023, nineteen soldiers lost their lives. Over thirty terrorists were slain by security personnel in the two districts last year, both in the hinterland and along the Line of Control (LoC).
