SRINAGAR: Three militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba have been killed in an ongoing encounter with security forces in the Shukroo forest area in South Kashmir’s Shopian district in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday.A police officer said a massive cordon and search operation was launched by troops in the Shukroo forest area of Keller in Shopian in the early hours of Tuesday, after receiving specific input about the presence of some militants there.Police said the search operation turned into an encounter after the terrorists fired upon the forces who retaliated.In the exchange of fire, three terrorists were killed as their bodies were sighted in the deep vegetation area in the forests, the officials said.The bodies were yet to be recovered, they added. The operation is ongoing.
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