J&K: Security forces launch search operations in Kathua; gunshots heard

NEW DELHI: Several gunshots were heard connected Tuesday aft information forces launched a hunt cognition pursuing accusation astir suspected violent question successful a distant colony of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, officials said.The intermittent firing was reported from the Najote wood country of Billawar, astir 10 km from the Kamadh nallah successful the Kahog wood belt, wherever information forces had exchanged occurrence with terrorists connected January 7, the officials said.According to officials, the suspected terrorists fired a fewer shots aft noticing the question of information forces, who retaliated portion advancing deeper into the wood to neutralise them.They said the cordon-and-search cognition has been strengthened, and efforts are underway to way down the ultras.An brushwood had breached retired betwixt terrorists and information forces successful the Kahog country connected January 7, but the militants managed to flight by taking vantage of darkness, hard terrain and dense wood cover.Security forces person intensified anti-terrorist operations crossed the Jammu portion up of the upcoming Republic Day celebrations.(With inputs from PTI)