Acting on the directions of their mentors sitting across the border, the killed terrorists were planning to attack the ongoing Army recruitment rally in Pattan
Police officials said the anti-terrorist operation was launched after generating specific inputs about the terrorist hideout, arms and ammunition has been also recovered from the encounter spot.
In India, two terrorists were killed in an encounter in South Kashmir's Tral area. Jammu and Kashmir police said that the terrorists belonged to Ansar Ul Gazwatul Hind and Lashkar-e-Taiba terror outfit.
The encounter started in the early hours today when security forces received a tip-off about the presence of terrorists in the area.
Cordon and search operation was launched and during the search operation, terrorists fired on security forces resulting in a gun battle.