Four militants and one paratrooper were killed in an encounter on Thursday here.
The encounter started after Army and police personnel launched an operation yesterday evening.
"Last night at around 8 p.m. we could hear a lot of gun-firing in the Hafruda forest. The firing was on all night. The firing stopped at around 7 a.m. We got to know that four militants were killed," Raees Masroor, a local inhabitant of Handwara told ANI.
