NEW DELHI: Security forces on Sunday launched a cordon and search operation in Jammu and Kashmir‘s Kulgam district after receiving inputs about the presence of terrorists suspected to be behind an attack on a CRPF post earlier this week.The operation is under way in Khudwani and adjoining areas of the south Kashmir district following an input from the J&K Police about the presence of terrorists, officials said according to news agency PTI.
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Senior Army officers, Director General of Police Nalin Prabhat and Kashmir Range Inspector General of Police Sujit Kumar Singh are overseeing the operation.Security forces have sealed all entry and exit points in the area, the officials added. The search operation follows an attack on a CRPF checkpoint in Kulgam on Wednesday afternoon.Around 2.15 pm, two motorcycle-borne assailants opened fire on CRPF personnel before fleeing the spot, injuring three personnel.The injured were taken to a hospital in Anantnag district for treatment.Security forces have been searching for the attackers for the past four days, with senior officers supervising the operation.In a separate incident in Kishtwar, the bullet-riddled bodies of two Special Police Officers (SPOs), who went missing on Wednesday, were recovered on Thursday morning.