Jammu, April 30 -- A day after a village defence guard (VDG) was killed during an encounter with terrorists in Basantgarh area of Udhampur district, he was laid to rest today, even as search operations continued in the region.

Search op underway, no trace of ultrasA search operation by the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the J&K Police, Special Forces of the Army and the CRPF is underway, even as there is no trace of the ultras who are believably on their way to the Kashmir Valley from Pakistan. As per reports, the ultras had infiltrated from the International Border in Kathua.

Mohammad Sharief, who along with a police party had gone to check the movement of terrorists following intelligence inputs, had received a bullet injury when a...