<p>Acting on a tip-off about the presence of a group of militants, troops of 20 and 16 Rastriya Rifles (RR) and Police launched a search and cordon operation in Mordha belt of Surakote tehsil in the district early today, Poonch SSP Manmohan Singh told PTI.<br /><br />On seeing the security personnel, militants opened discriminate firing from maize fields atop a hill in which one army jawan Gurpreet Singh of 16 RR was injured. He was later hospitalised.<br /><br />Police and troops fired back and an encounter ensued in which three top militants of LeT were killed, he said, adding that all of them are Pakistani militants.<br /><br />Two of them have been identified as Abu Abdul and Abu Usman, he said adding large quantities of arms and ammunition have been recovered from the scene of the encounter.</p>
<p>Acting on a tip-off about the presence of a group of militants, troops of 20 and 16 Rastriya Rifles (RR) and Police launched a search and cordon operation in Mordha belt of Surakote tehsil in the district early today, Poonch SSP Manmohan Singh told PTI.<br /><br />On seeing the security personnel, militants opened discriminate firing from maize fields atop a hill in which one army jawan Gurpreet Singh of 16 RR was injured. He was later hospitalised.<br /><br />Police and troops fired back and an encounter ensued in which three top militants of LeT were killed, he said, adding that all of them are Pakistani militants.<br /><br />Two of them have been identified as Abu Abdul and Abu Usman, he said adding large quantities of arms and ammunition have been recovered from the scene of the encounter.</p>