Srinagar, April 28 -- According toThe Indian Express, security teams managed to locate the attackers not once, but at least four times. Every time, they slipped away.

Once there was even an exchange of fire deep inside the woods. But it ended the same way: with the killers vanishing into the forest.

Sources told IE said the terrorists were tracked down using a mix of local tips, intelligence feeds, and endless foot patrols.

But tracking someone in these woods is nothing like chasing them in the open. Visibility drops, gunfire echoes off the trees, and the terrain eats up time.

"It's a cat and mouse game," an officer told the newspaper. "Sometimes we almost have them. Sometimes we see them. But they're gone before we can close in. It's...