Srinagar, Nov. 15 -- Security forces on Sunday launched a massive cordon-and-search operation (CASO) in Khudwani area of South Kashmir's Kulgam district following intelligence inputs about the presence of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists, official sources said.

They said a joint team of security forces launched a focused search operation in the area, with senior officers of the J&K security grid, including Army, Police and CRPF, reaching the spot to monitor the operation.

The search operation is underway around five kilometres from the site of Wednesday's attack on CRPF personnel, in which three personnel were injured, one of them critically.

Since the attack, security forces have launched multiple search operations across Kulgam distric...