The White Knight Corps, in a tweet, said, "Operation Trinetra II. In a major cordon and search operation, acting on specific intelligence, four terrorists were eliminated in a joint operation by the Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police near Sindarah and Maidana villages in Surankote tehsil of Poonch district."
According to officials, the joint search and cordon operation, Operation Trinetra II, was launched in the area following specific inputs Monday and contact with militants was established in the evening.
This comes after security forces killed two militants and foiled a major infiltration bid along the Line of Control in the Krishna Ghati Sector in Poonch district on the intervening night of July 16 and 17
Five Army personnel were killed Friday morning when militants cornered by the troops triggered an explosion in a densely forested area in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.