Kathua search ops intensified as three terrorists barge into house

Six family members of a jailed overground worker detained for questioning

- Ravi Krishnan Khajuria

JAMMU: Security forces intensified search operations on Monday using aerial surveillance and sniffer dogs following a night-long cordon after fresh reports of suspected movement of three individuals, believed to be terrorists, who escaped a recent encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, officials said.

Two terrorists and four policemen were killed, while three others, including a deputy superintendent of police, were injured during a gunfight in a remote forested area in the Sanyal belt of the district on Thursday.

On Sunday night, three suspected terrorists entered a house in Rui village in Juthana area and took away food from the kitchen, the officials said.