Watch: Locals take cover during J&K encounter which left 2 militants dead

Two terrorists who had opened fire at a check post on the Jammu-Srinagar-highway on Wednesday were killed in a shootout with security forces after being surrounded near a village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district on Thursday and the third was trapped, officials said.

Eight security personnel including a deputy superintendent of police were injured in the encounter that was barely five km away from the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi university and super specialty hospital.