Two unidentified infiltrators were killed after security forces foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, officials said on Saturday.

The Army’s Srinagar-based Chinar Corps, in a post on X, said on Friday, based on a specific intelligence input about an infiltration attempt, a joint operation named “Operation Pimple” was launched in the Keran sector of Kupwara.

The Army said “alert troops spotted suspicious activity” and challenged the adversary, prompting the infiltrators to open indiscriminate fire. “Contact was established and terrorists trapped,” the Army said and later confirmed that two terrorists had been neutralised in the ongoing operation.

Army sources said the two slain terrorists had not been identified yet and a combing operat

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