Jammu, Mar 29 (PTI) Four police personnel, including a sub-inspector, were injured in an attack by bovine smugglers in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district on Tuesday night, officials said.

Based on specific inputs, a police party intercepted bovine smugglers on the highway at Ghagwal, but they attacked the team, they said.

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In the attack, four police personnel, including Sub-Inspector Balbir Singh, were injured while the smugglers escaped from the spot, the officials said.

Taking a serious view of the attack by the smugglers, who were illegally ferrying cattle to Kashmir, police launched raids in different parts and arrested one of the accused, they said.

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A case has been registered, police said, adding that the operation to track down other smugglers is going on.

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