Overview
- Security forces launched large searches in Samba after a caretaker reported two people near the International Border in Pangdour.
- Police, Army and the Border Security Force cordoned the SIDCO forest and searched the Basantar nallah next to the village.
- Special Operations Group officers later challenged the same pair near the forest. The suspects escaped into the woods and remain at large.
- A separate operation began in Kathua after reports of two armed men with heavy backpacks moving from Soffain toward the Ambanall forest.
- Police in Kathua, backed by the Army, CRPF and the local SOG, swept Rajbagh, Ramkote and nearby areas, with officials noting these forested routes have been used for inland movement and citing a Soffain gunfight last year that killed four policemen and two Jaish-e-Mohammad militants.