Search operation launched in Sopore area

SRINAGAR: Security forces launched a cordon-and-search-operation (CASO) after gunshots were heard in Seelu area of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.

Reports said few gunshots were heard in Seelu area after which a joint team of Jammu and Kashmir police’s Special Operation Group (SOG) and army cordoned off the area.

A senior police official said that a police team has been deputed to the site and that they were verifying the incident.