Security forces called off a cordon and search operation on Friday after the militants they were battling managed to escape from Pattan area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district, the police said on Friday, PTI reported. No casualties were reported. Authorities have suspended mobile internet services in the area, The Indian Express reported.

Militants hiding in Tantray Mohalla in Pattan reportedly started firing at security forces who were conducting a cordon and search operation in the area early on Friday, PTI quoted a police official as saying.

The cordon was laid at 1 am on Friday and lifted around noon. Two militants are believed to have fled the area during the gun battle, The Times of India reported.

A civilian, identified as 24-year-old Ghulam Hassan, sustained pellet injuries during the exchange of fire.

This is the second militant attack on security forces in the past 24 hours. On Thursday evening, suspected militants fired at a Central Reserve Police Force camp in a village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district.

This comes less than a week after militants had attacked the Sunjuwan Army camp in Jammu, and a camp of the Central Reserve Police Force in Karan Nagar in Srinagar. Six soldiers, one civilian and three militants were killed in the Sunjuwan attack. A CRPF constable and two militants died in Karan Nagar.