Srinagar, March 25 -- A large quantity of material, including several magazines of M-4 carbine and a bulletproof jacket, was discovered as a search operation to neutralise a "group of infiltrating terrorists" continued on Monday in Kathua district, officials said.

The operation was launched Sunday evening in the Hiranagar sector and was intensified with additional deployment of commandos, drones, and sniffer dogs this morning, they said, adding that a chopper was also deployed later.

The operation was launched by police's Special Operations Group after they got intelligence about the presence of terrorists inside a 'dhok' - a local term for an enclosure - in a nursery in Sanyal village, approximately five km from the International Border ...