Jammu & Kashmir, April 24 -- A soldier was killed in a gunfight between security forces and militants on Thursday in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, security sources said.

Official sources said that a brief contact was established between security forces and militants when a search operation was launched on specific inputs about the movement of militants in the forest belt of Latti in Dudu-Basantgarh area of Udhampur.

The militants fired upon the search team and it was retaliated.

The White Knight Corps of Indian Army in a post on X said that based on specific intelligence, a joint operation with police was launched on Thursday in Basantgarh, Udhampur.

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