Srinagar, May 2 -- Security agencies have extended the ongoing search operation to Kathua district to track down two groups of terrorists involved in killing of a Village Defence Guard (VDG) member in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir. A VDG member was killed in a brief encounter with terrorists in remote Panara village in Chochru Gala heights early Sunday, following which a hunt was launched jointly by the police, army, and CRPF.

The search operation, which entered the fourth day on Wednesday, is ongoing in Basantgarh, Bani and Seoj areas of Udhampur and Kathua districts, officials said. They said there has been no fresh contact with the fleeing terrorists after the initial gunfight in which the VDG member was killed. As per source...