Lagatar24 Desk
Rajouri, May 5: The ongoing anti-terror operation in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir’s Kandi area, claimed the lives of five soldiers in all, according to officials.
“Three more soldiers who were injured earlier have unfortunately succumbed to their injuries. A total of five soldiers have lost their lives in the joint operation in Rajouri, J&K,” said the officials.
The officials say that the operations are still ongoing.
According to an official release, the Indian Army is carrying out persistent intelligence-based operations to ferret out a cell of terrorists responsible for an ambush on an army truck in the Tota Gali area of Bhata Dhurian in the Jammu region.
“On specific information about the presence of terrorists in the Kandi Forest in the Rajouri Sector, a joint operation was launched on May 3, 2023. At about 7:30 am on May 5, 2023, a search team established contact with a group of terrorists well entrenched in a cave. The area is thickly vegetated with rocky and steep cliffs,” the official release stated.
Initial indications suggest that there are some terrorists trapped in the area. There is a likelihood of casualties in a terrorist group.
In the Kandi area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri, security personnel and terrorists engaged in combat earlier in the day.
