In Jammu and Kashmir, the security forces today gunned down two more terrorists holed up in a forest area in Akhnoor sector of Jammu, taking the number of terrorists killed in long hours of gunfight near the Line of Control (LoC) to three.

Our  Correspondent reports that one of the three terrorists who fired at an ambulance with the army convoy near the LoC yesterday morning was killed by evening in an operation launched by special forces and NSG commandos, with the use of BMP-II infantry combat vehicles. The other two terrorists were killed today in a joint operation launched by teams of army and police in the Battal-Khour area of Akhnoor sector.

    The encounter has ended but the operation is on to retrieve the bodies of the slain terrorists, who are believed to have infiltrated from across the border on Sunday night before appearing outside a temple and targeting the army convoy. In a first, the Army has also pressed its four BMP-II infantry combat vehicles for surveillance and strengthening the cordon around the attack site, while helicopters and drones were also deployed to locate the hiding terrorists.