Jammu Tawi, March 25: Security forces on Tuesday took three people into custody and expanded their search area as they looked for the militants who exchanged fire with them on Sunday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district.
Sources said the search parties combing the forests were now moving towards the International Border with Pakistan, nearly five kilometres from Saniyal village where the militants were first spotted by a couple on Sunday.
While police did not disclose the identity of those taken into custody, sources said they had a history of helping militants and that they had been picked up for questioning in 2024, too.
The search parties on Tuesday recovered two grenades and some M4 ammunition from the forests. On Monday, they had found several magazines of M4 carbine and a bulletproof jacket among other material believed to have been left behind by the absconding militants.
