Last Updated: September 30, 2023, 14:34 IST
Security personnel were conducting a joint operation. (File: PTI)
The joint operation was conducted based on an intelligence given by the Kupwara police
Two terrorists have been killed in a joint operation in the Kumkadi area of Machal Sector in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara based on an intelligence provided by the Kupwara police. The terrorists were killed during an infiltration attempt
So far, two AK-47s, four AK Mags, 90 RDs, one Pakistani Pistol, one Puch and Rs 2,100 Pakistani currency among other things has been recovered from the encounter site.
Two weeks ago, on September 16, an security forces neutralised three terrorists while they foiled an infiltration bid in J&K’s Baramulla district. Amid this bid, the Pakistan Army was giving cover and targeting quadcopters of the Indian Army.
The operation was launched in the Uri sector along the Line of Control (LoC) on the morning of September 16 after the forces received inputs about infiltration attempts by Pakistan-based outfits.
Addressing a press conference in north Kashmir’s Uri, Brigadier P M S Dhillon said they have been receiving intelligence inputs that Pakistani outfits were trying to infiltrate into Uri to destabilise peace in Jammu and Kashmir. “So, we strengthened our counter-infiltration and surveillance grid,” he said.
The officer said the army used under-barrel grenade launchers (UBGL), multi-grenade launchers (MGL), and rocket launchers to neutralise the terrorists.
Further back on September 6, the Indian Army foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control in the J&K’s Poonch district.
Jammu-based defence PRO Lt Col Suneel Bartwal had said that the two terrorists were observed crossing the LoC towards the Indian side on the intervening night of September 5 and 6 in Poonch’s Mandi sub-sector.