SRINAGAR: The joint cordon-and-search operation to track down two militants involved in Wednesday’s attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) post in Kulgam district entered its third consecutive day on Friday, with security forces continuing extensive searches across villages, orchards and adjoining forest areas.
Army personnel, Jammu and Kashmir Police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) and CRPF teams have expanded the search operation in and around Nowpora Akhran and Mir Bazar to trace the attackers.
Security has also been tightened along the nearby Srinagar-Jammu National Highway, with security forces deploying armoured vehicles, establishing special checkpoints and intensifying vehicle frisking. Human and technical intelligence are being used to track the militants.
Meanwhile, the Army’s 15 Corps Commander visited the attack site to review the security arrangements and ongoing counter-terror operations.
The attack took place around 2.15 pm on Wednesday, November 11, when two heavily armed militants emerged from a cluster of trees and opened fire on a CRPF checkpost manned by personnel of the 46th Battalion at Nowpora Akhran, near Mir Bazar, around one kilometre from the national highway.
The attackers fled towards an adjoining forest after opening fire.
Three CRPF personnel sustained bullet injuries in the attack. They were identified by Gulistan News as Head Constable (General Duty) Somveer, Constable (General Duty) Santano and Constable (General Duty) Rakesh Das.
One of the injured personnel was airlifted to the 92 Base Hospital in Srinagar, while the other two received treatment in Anantnag.
