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Srinagar, April 28: The Army, along with Central Armed Police forces and J&K Police, has been conducting cordon and search operations in the forests around Pahalgam to nab the four terrorists, including two from Pakistan, who gunned down 26 people in the Baisaran meadow on April 21, according to a report in Indian Express,
The newspaper said that the security forces located the Pahalgam attackers “at least four times” in different spots over the past five days, came “very close” to cornering them in the forests of South Kashmir — and, on one such occasion, even exchanged fire with them, The Indian Express has learnt.”
The newspaper quoted unnamed sources as basis of the report, “ The terrorists were located through information obtained from local residents, intelligence inputs and combing operations, sources said. “It’s a cat and mouse game. There have been moments where they have been visibly located. But by the time they could be engaged, they had escaped. The forests are very thick and it’s not easy to chase someone even after visibly locating them. But we are sure we will get them, it’s only a matter of days,” an officer from the military establishment told this newspaper.”
The Army, along with Central Armed Police forces and J&K Police, has been conducting cordon and search operations in the forests around Pahalgam to nab the four terrorists, including two from Pakistan, who gunned down 26 people in the Baisaran meadow on April 21.
Sources said the terrorists were first located in the forests near Hapat Nar village in Anantnag’s Pahalgam tehsil but they managed to escape by taking advantage of the dense terrain, the report said.
