Two militants were killed in a fierce gunbattle with security forces in Shah Nagri Forest in Handwara, some 80km from summer capital Srinagar.
Three militants, one of them belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen, were killed today in separate gunfights with security forces who busted three ultra hideouts seizing 60kg explosives besides a huge cache of arms in Jammu and Kashmir.
Two militants were killed in a fierce gunbattle with security forces in Shah Nagri Forest in Handwara, some 80km from summer capital Srinagar, officials said.
Security forces, acting on a specific information that some militants were hiding there, cordoned off the area, they said.
As the troops zeroed in on the militants, they opened fire triggering a gunfight in which two ultras were killed.
The identity and group affiliations of the slain ultras were yet to be ascertained, the officials said.
A Hizbul Mujahideen militant was killed and a policeman wounded in the exchange of fire between security forces and ultras at Mahore in Jammu division's Reasi district.
The gunbattle, in which a police constable was wounded, was still on as another militant was believed to be trapped in the area, police said.
The injured policeman was airlifted to Jammu city for treatment.
In another encounter at Kakote in Doda district last night, police head constable Abdul Rashid was injured.
The militants escaped under the cover of darkness, the officials said adding a hunt had been launched to apprehend them.
Security forces busted three ultra hideouts in the valley and seized a large quantity of arms and ammunition, the officials said.
Sixty 60kg of explosives, 17 grenades, a rifle, seven detonators and 37 gelatine sticks were recovered when a LeT hideout was smashed in Kishtwar district.
The hideout was located in a cave in Nadigam forest area, 270km from Jammu, the officials said.
A hideout each was smashed in Tral belt in southern Pulwama and in Kangan area in Ganderbal district.
The seizure included two rifles, five rockets, several hand grenades, an Under Barrel Grenade Launcher (UBGL), an IED fitted on a gas cylinder, a Pak-made pistol and an AK magazine with 14 rounds.
Hizbul militants barged into a house at Akhal village, 45km from Srinagar, last night and shot dead a 27-year-old man.
The brother of the deceased was a Hizbul militant who had surrendered before security forces last year.
He was killed to apparently avenge the surrender of his brother.
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