The 56-hour gunbattle between security forces and militants holed up in a government building at Pampore on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway ended on Wednesday with both the ultras hiding there shot dead.
As there were reports of two to three militants present in the Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI) complex, the security forces had to search all the 50 rooms of the building before calling off the operation, an army official said.
“We have recovered bodies of two militants and the search operation at the EDI building in Pampore has been almost completed,” the army official said.
While one militant was killed on Tuesday evening, the other militant was shot dead by the security forces on Wednesday, the official said.
The official said details about the slain militants were being ascertained but prima facie there were indications that they belonged to Lashkar-e-Toiba.
