The search operation turned into an encounter after the ultras opened fire at the search party, who retaliated.
An encounter broke out on Monday night between security forces and militants holed up in a village in Pulwama district of south Kashmir, police said.
The security forces had launched a cordon-and-search operation at Hanjin village in the Rajpora area of Pulwama following information about the presence of the terrorists there, a police official said.
A jawan of the paramilitary border security force (BSF) was gunned down by his senior colleague in the second incident of fratricide this week in south Kashmir.
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