Four militants were killed in a gun-battle with security forces in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday.
Terrorists had abducted and later killed Nadeem Manzoor, a resident of Safanagri area, on Thursday night.
Two AK-47 rifles, seven magazines, 134 rounds of bullet, one radio set, one GPS device and a large quantity of war-like store were recovered from the possession of the slain terrorists
Five militants of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba outfit were killed in a day-long encounter near apple-rich north Kashmir's Sopore town on Tuesday.
A senior officer of the elite counter-insurgency Rashtriya Rifles was killed and a member of the special operations group critically wounded in two continuing north Kashmir encounters on Friday.
Three troopers and a militant were killed in a north Kashmir gunfight that has been continuing for over 24 hours.