However, when the security forces were moving towards a particular area in the Mohalla, militants resorted to indiscriminate firing with automatic weapons. Security forces also retaliated ensuing an encounter.

Sources said that LeT militants were killed in the encounter. A policeman was also injured, they said, adding search operation was going on when the reports last came in though firing has stopped.

Additional security forces had been deployed to prevent any law and order problem outside the cordoned off area.

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