5 militants were killed in an encounter which started on Friday night in Killora village of Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district. The operation has ended and bodies of all the five have been recovered. The militants are learnt to be from the Lashkar-e-Taiba. This is the third consecutive encounter since Thursday

The security forces had cordoned off the area last night following specific intelligence inputs about the presence of militants and had started a search operation there. The search operation turned into an encounter after the militants fired upon the security forces