Security forces trace infiltrator militants, engage them in gun fight in Rajouri

A gun fight broke out today between the security personnel and some militants, who had infiltrated from across the LoC four-five days back in Rajouri sector and were traced to be in its Sunderbani tehsil after days of combing operations, the police said.

Amid the ongoing encounter between the security forces and the militants, the authorities refuted reports of a terror attack at a CRPF camp, but ordered closure of all educational institutions in the tehsil as a precautionary measure.

"An encounter has broken out between Nowshera-Sunderbani belt after a group of infiltrator militants were intercepted by the security forces today," J&K Director General of Police S P Vaid told PTI.

He refuted reports of a terror attack by the militants terming them as "totally false."