Security forces launched a massive search operation on Saturday to trace a group of terrorists who killed three Army personnel during an encounter a day earlier in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district, officials said.
Friday’s encounter between security personnel and the terrorists occurred in the higher reaches of the Halan forest area of Kulgam in south Kashmir.
The gunfight ensued after the terrorists fired upon a security forces party, which had erected a tent in the area as part of an area domination exercise, the officials said.
In the exchange of fire, three Army personnel were injured. They died later during treatment. The terrorists subsequently decamped with some weapons, the officials said.