Kathua Encounter: Body of the 4th cop spotted, 3 Militants confirmed dead
Jammu, Mar 28: The highly equipped drone spotted the body of another policeman on Friday near the spot where a gunfight took place earlier in a remote forested area in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
This is the fourth cop martyred in the gunfight in which three terrorists are also confirmed to have been neutralize d by the Security forces.
Heavy firing and deafening sounds of explosions continued for the second day as police assisted by the Army and CRPF moved this morning from different directions, after a night halt to sanitise the forest area, they said.
On Thursday, three suspected Pakistani terrorists of proscribed Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit and an equal number of policemen were found dead after the day-long gunfight while one policeman was reported missing although confirmation was done later. Seven others, including a deputy superintendent of police, were injured in the gunbattle.
The officials said the security forces resumed the operation with the first light of the day, having the primary focus to retrieve the bodies of the deceased, finding a missing policeman and neutralising any other threat.
They said the joint security parties are moving cautiously to the targeted area as two more terrorists are believed holed up there. They were also presumed dead earlier but their bodies could not be sighted by the drones.
