Additional Director General of Police Anand Jain said security personnel retaliated, resulting in a gunfight that was on until the last reports from the spot.

Three security personnel were injured and subsequently hospitalised. Additional security personnel were rushed to the area to intensify the operation, officials said. 

Kathua Terrorist Attack

The above development came as security forces were conducting a massive operation to flush out holed-up terrorists who had attacked a village near the International Border (IB) in Kathua district on Tuesday evening and injured a civilian. A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan, Kabir Dass, was critically injured in Kathua gunfire, officials said, adding the soldier was shifted to a hospital where he succumbed to injuries during treatment.

A suspected Pakistani terrorist was killed by security forces in the Kathua operation on Tuesday night, police said. Another terrorist was killed on Wednesday as security operation continued in Kathua.

The attacks in the Jammu region come two days after terrorists attacked a bus carrying pilgrims from the Shiv Khori temple to Katra causing it to veer off the road and fall into a deep gorge, resulting in the death of nine persons and injuries to 41 others.

On three terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, ADGP Anand Jain said, "It is our hostile neighbour who always tries to damage the peaceful environment in our country. This appears to be a fresh infiltration. One terrorist has been killed, the search for the other is also underway..."

Reasi Attack

Nine people including three women were killed and 41 injured as a bus carrying pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh and Delhi plunged into a deep gorge after an ambush by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district at around 6:15 pm on Sunday, police said.

The terrorists opened fire at the bus when it was en route from Shiv Khori temple to Mata Vaishno Devi shrine at Katra near Teryath village in the Poni area. The bus, a 53-seater, veered off the road and plunged into the deep gorge following the gunfire.

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Pakistan-backed The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, claimed responsibility for the terror attack. In a message, the TRF warned of more such attacks on "tourists and non-locals" and called the Reasi attack only the "beginning of a renewed start", according to reports.