A brief exchange of fire took place between terrorists and security forces in a village in Jammu and Kashmir`s Poonch district, officials said on Tuesday.
The gunfire rattled the Lasana village of Surankote Monday night when security forces launched a search operation following information about the presence of terrorists, the officials said. `Contact was established with terrorists during a joint operation with Police at Lasana, Surankote last night.
Additional troops have been inducted, and search operations are ongoing to prevent the terrorists from escaping,` Army`s Jammu-based White Knight Corps wrote on X. Officials said one Army personnel was injured in the firing, and was subsequently shifted to a hospital.
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