Early on Wednesday, September 13, Colonel Manpreet Singh, commanding officer of 19 Rashtriya Rifles, Major Ashish Dhonack, and Deputy Superintendent Humayun Bhat were killed in a gunfight with terrorists in Anantnag district.
On Thursday, the Jammu and Kashmir police said it had 'encircled' two Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists responsible for the murders.
A terrorist was killed in an encounter with security forces on Wednesday, raising the death toll during an ongoing three-day search operation in a remote village in Rajouri district to three.
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