A security personnel was killed and another two suffered injuries in a landmine blast near the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Thursday, official sources said.

The troops were patrolling the forward area in Nowshera sector when the explosion occurred, the sources said.

The three security personnel were admitted to a hospital, they said, adding one of them succumbed to injuries.

In another landmine blast, a goat was injured in Poonch district's Mendhar sector, they said.