The Army official said that four militants were killed in an encounter on Wednesday after security forces launched a search operation in the forest area on Monday, following information about the presence of militants there. He said that weapons and other war-like items were recovered from the encounter site and that the search operation was still going on. The Army said that the number of militants killed in the operation since Wednesday increased to five after the body of a militant was recovered from the encounter site in the Ladoora forests in the Rafiabad area of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. One soldier was also injured in the gun firing.