SRINAGAR: The army and BSF along with police on Wednesday conducted search operations in villages along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri and Poonch districts besides the international border in Samba district to find any hideouts or tunnels where militants could infiltrate.
The search operation has been conducted in the wake of the recent ambush of two Army vehicles in Poonch by a group of militants, The Tribune reported.
Along the LoC, the Army searched for natural caves where militants could be hiding, while along the border the BSF and the police searched for cross-border tunnels which could be used by terrorists to infiltrate into this side of the border.
Quoting Samba DSP Garu Ram Bhardwaj, Tribune reported that a search operation was also launched along the international border in Samba to detect if there were any cross-border tunnels dug up by militants close to the fence.
