Srinagar: Indian Army special forces and other fully equipped security forces early Tuesday moved in a dense forest area of Jammu and Kashmir’s frontier district of Kathua to chase terrorists involved in previous day’s ambush on an Army infantry combat vehicle that killed five soldiers and injured five others.
The ground forces are being supported by Army combat helicopters Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveillance. Within a couple of hours of the deadly attack outside Badnote village, 152-km away from the Kathua town, the Army had airdropped the men of its Parachute Regiment (Special Forces), commonly referred to as Para (SF), in the Mandli sub-sector which falls in proximity to the place where the attack took place.
The Army alongside the J&K police and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) had earlier encircled the woods for a massive Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) to take on the assailants who had after targeting the Army vehicle with grenades and assault rifles scampered…