Security forces have intensified the operation to track down the militants responsible for the killing of seven workers, including a local doctor in the Ganderbal district of central Kashmir.

Security forces launched a large-scale combing operation in the area adjacent to tourist spot Sonmarg on Monday, a day after a horrific terror attack at a tunnel construction site in Jammu and Kashmir

Farooq Abdullah strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Ganderbal district, which claimed the lives of a doctor and six migrant workers on Sunday.

Omar Abdullah, the first Chief Minister of the Union Territory since the Centre revoked Article 370 in 2019, called Sunday’s incident in which seven people were killed a militant attack instead of a terror attack – causing some people to lash out over social media.

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said two foreign terrorists, who have possibly infiltrated from north Kashmir’s Bandipora area, were involved in an attack that left seven people dead in Ganderbal district a day before.

The terrorists opened fire on the camp that housed labourers of a private firm working on the construction of a tunnel at Gund area in the Ganderbal district.