The two soldiers of the Rashtriya Rifles (RR) martyred during the encounter have been identified as Santosh Yadav and Sepoy Romit Chauhan. Both were critically injured during the encounter and were shifted to the military hospital at Srinagar where they succumbed, reports said.
The joint operation by the Army, CRPF and J&K Police was called off on Thursday morning.
"Two unidentified terrorists killed. Incriminating materials including arms and ammunition recovered," the police said.
Three LeT terrorists were killed in an encounter that started between terrorists and security forces at Tulran Imamsahab area in South Kashmir's Shopian district.
Confirming the killing of 5 terrorists, the J&K DGP Dilbag Singh told The Statesman that it was a mixed group of HM and LeT terrorists.
Encounter broke out in the wee hours when a joint team of army's 34 RR, CRPF and SOG launched a cordon and search operation in Batagund.
The terrorists opened fire at the security forces, leading to an encounter. Three soldiers have sustained injuries in the encounter.
The security forces cordoned off the Rebon village after receiving specific information about holed-up militants.
Following specific inputs about the militants, security forces had cordoned off Safanagri village early in the day, prompting the hiding terrorists to fire.
The bodies were recovered on Sunday and one of them turned out to be a civilian. He was identified as Shahid Ahmad Mir.
