Srinagar, Nov 12:
Joint security forces on Thursday morning resumed a massive cordon-and-search operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district to track down two armed militants who attacked a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) post, leaving three personnel injured.
The attack occurred around 2:15 pm on Wednesday near Mir Bazar—located roughly 75 km from Srinagar and barely a kilometre off the strategic Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.
According to officials, two heavily armed assailants emerged from a dense cluster of trees and opened indiscriminate fire on the security checkpoint before retreating into the adjoining forested belt. One of the three injured CRPF jawans sustained critical abdominal wounds and was shifted for advanced medical care.
Following the overnight suspension of active combing due to darkness, Army, CRPF, and Jammu and Kashmir Police teams resumed searches at daybreak using technical surveillance and human intelligence inputs. Security forces have erected barricades, deployed armoured vehicles at sensitive junctions, and intensified vehicle checking and frisking along National Highway-44 to seal all potential escape routes.