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After a night-long halt, security forces resumed their hunt operation connected Monday (January 19, 2026) to way down terrorists believed to beryllium hiding successful the precocious reaches of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, officials said.
The cognition was launched successful Sonnar colony adjacent Mandral-Singhpora successful the Chatroo loop connected Sunday (January 18, 2026), starring to a gunfight that near 8 soldiers injured, chiefly owed to splinter injuries caused by a abrupt grenade onslaught from the hiding terrorists.
The cognition was suspended precocious connected Sunday (January 18, 2026) nighttime successful the challenging terrain marked by heavy vegetation and steep slopes, limiting visibility and movement, officials said.
Multiple teams of the army, police, and paramilitary forces, supported by drones and sniffer dogs, are combing the country portion maintaining a choky information cordon to guarantee that the terrorists are not capable to escape, the officials said.
A radical of 2 to 3 terrorists allegedly affiliated with the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) are believed to beryllium trapped successful the area, officials said, adding the cognition resumed with the archetypal airy of the time and was ongoing erstwhile the past reports were received.
Officials informed that determination was nary caller interaction with the terrorists.
Named 'Operation Trashi-I', the army's Jammu-based White Knight Corps, successful a station connected X connected Sunday (January 18), said the information forces came successful interaction with the terrorists successful the wide country Sonnar, northeast of Chatroo, during the hunt cognition conducted arsenic portion of ongoing associated counter-terror exercises on with Jammu and Kashmir Police.
"Operations stay underway with further forces inducted to reenforce the cordon, supported by adjacent coordination with civilian medication and information agencies," the Army said, commending the troops for their exceptional professionalism and resoluteness portion responding to hostile occurrence nether challenging terrain and conditions.
This brushwood marks the 3rd struggle betwixt information forces and terrorists successful the Jammu portion this year. Previous encounters occurred successful the Kahog and Najote forests successful the Billawar country of Kathua district connected January 7 and 13, respectively.
On December 15 past year, a constabulary serviceman was killed successful an brushwood with terrorists astatine Soan colony successful the Majalta area of Udhampur district. The terrorists managed to escape, taking vantage of heavy foliage and darkness.
The encounters followed a major counter-terrorist cognition launched successful the wood belts of the Jammu region successful December past twelvemonth to flush retired astir 3 twelve holed-up terrorists.
Operations person been further intensified successful the run-up to Republic Day to guarantee peaceful celebrations, amid quality inputs astir hopeless attempts by Pakistan-based handlers to propulsion much terrorists into the region, officials mentioned.
