Two Special Police Officers (SPOs) went missing in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district on Wednesday, November 11, prompting officials to launch a search operation, news agency PTI reported, citing officials.

Source: PTI via Times of India

Officials told the GNS news agency that the missing personnel are SPO Rashpal Kumar and SPO Bobby Chand, both residents of Kiyar Dachhan and posted with the Special Operations Group (SOG) in the Kiyar sector of Dachhan, in Kishtwar district.

Source: GNS via Kashmir Rays

According to officials, both men had been detailed for rotation duty at the 17 Rashtriya Rifles temporary operating base camp at Dharna, in the Marwah sector, but did not report to the camp and have remained untraceable since.

Reports of gunfire from the Dehrna forest area of Marwah heightened concern, and security was placed on high alert in the district while police and security agencies launched a joint search to trace the two men and establish what happened.

Source: Mirror Now

Further details are awaited. The disappearance came on the same day three CRPF personnel were injured in a militant attack in Kulgam district, in a separate incident that Awaaz Punjab reported earlier on Wednesday.