Jammu, April 29 -- A member of the Village Defence Guard (VDG), part of security forces combing a forest area to track down terrorists, sacrificed his life during a gunfight with the ultras in a remote village of Basantgarh in the Udhampur district on Sunday.

This marks the third incident of terrorist-related violence in poll-bound Jammu and Kashmir since last week. This is the first major terrorist strike in the area after 2018. Till the time of filing the report massive cordon and search operations were mounted in the thickly forested belt to track down the footprints of the group of terrorists.

A joint team of security forces led by elite Para commandos of the Indian Army were rushed to the spot to flush out the hiding group of terro...