Terrorists’ Door-To-Door Water Search And Then Call To Cops: How Villagers Saved The Day In J&K’s Kathua

The two terrorists, who opened fire in a village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on Tuesday evening, initially went door-to-door in asking for water. However, the alert villagers slammed the doors in their faces and raised an alarm, police said.

After the villagers informed the police, a gunfight broke out between the security forces and the terrorists, killing at least two terrorists and injuring a civilian.

On the other hand, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan was critically injured in a firing by another terrorist holed up in the village, officials said, adding the soldier was shifted to a hospital where he succumbed to injuries during treatment.

Anand Jain, Additional Director General of Police, Jammu zone, who is supervising the anti-terrorist ops in Kathua, took to social media platform explaining the chain of events and praising the alert villagers.

He wrote, “Two terrorists (who appeared to have freshly infiltrated) surfaced in village Saida Sukhal near Koota morh of Police Station Hira Nagar in the late evening of 11 June. They asked for water from a few houses to which villagers grew suspicious and slammed the doors on them and a few raised hue and cry.”

He added that the terrorists panicked and fired randomly in the air and also at villagers, who were passing by. “SHO Hiranagar and SDPO rushed to the spot, engaged the terrorists and one terrorist got killed while lobbing a grenade at the police party. A search of the other terrorist is on,” he wrote.

“Police with the help of CRPF has cordoned the area. A search party is clearing the houses one by one. So far one family of husband and wife has been evacuated to hospital. While the wife is unhurt, the husband Omkar Nath S/o Dina Nath is injured in the arm and appears to be stable,” the top official wrote.

Alerting people against fake news and seeking their support, Jain wrote, “Members of the general public who are respected citizens are requested to wait for authentic information and not indulge in spreading different narratives that are unverified.”