<p>Jammu: A cordon-and-search operation was underway in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday to track down terrorists who had fired on a convoy of Army vehicles a day ago, officials said.</p>.<p>There was no casualty in the attack on the convoy on Friday.</p>.<p>Troops are using sniffer dogs and aerial surveillance to comb the area, which has dense forest, the officials said.</p>.Chief of Army Staff rues lack of human intelligence in Rajouri-Poonch area in its fight against terrorists.<p>The cordon-and-search operation was underway to track the attackers, a senior officer said.</p>.<p>The vehicles that came under attack near Krishna Ghati in Poonch sector on Friday evening were carrying security personnel back to a camp.</p>.<p>No one was injured in the attack and the commanding officer as well as other Army personnel were safe, officials said.</p>.<p>A similar ambush on Army vehicles took place in Poonch's Dhatya Morh in the Dera Ki Gali area on December 21. Four Army personnel were killed in that attack.</p>.<p>Rajouri and Poonch districts have witnessed targeted attacks by terrorists on the Army and civilians in the recent past, they said.</p>.<p>Nineteen soldiers were killed in four terrorist attacks in Rajouri and Poonch in 2023.</p>.<p>Security forces killed more than 30 terrorists in the two districts — along the Line of Control (LoC) as well as in the hinterland — last year.</p>
<p>Jammu: A cordon-and-search operation was underway in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday to track down terrorists who had fired on a convoy of Army vehicles a day ago, officials said.</p>.<p>There was no casualty in the attack on the convoy on Friday.</p>.<p>Troops are using sniffer dogs and aerial surveillance to comb the area, which has dense forest, the officials said.</p>.Chief of Army Staff rues lack of human intelligence in Rajouri-Poonch area in its fight against terrorists.<p>The cordon-and-search operation was underway to track the attackers, a senior officer said.</p>.<p>The vehicles that came under attack near Krishna Ghati in Poonch sector on Friday evening were carrying security personnel back to a camp.</p>.<p>No one was injured in the attack and the commanding officer as well as other Army personnel were safe, officials said.</p>.<p>A similar ambush on Army vehicles took place in Poonch's Dhatya Morh in the Dera Ki Gali area on December 21. Four Army personnel were killed in that attack.</p>.<p>Rajouri and Poonch districts have witnessed targeted attacks by terrorists on the Army and civilians in the recent past, they said.</p>.<p>Nineteen soldiers were killed in four terrorist attacks in Rajouri and Poonch in 2023.</p>.<p>Security forces killed more than 30 terrorists in the two districts — along the Line of Control (LoC) as well as in the hinterland — last year.</p>