<span style="color: #222222;">In Jammu and Kashmir, security forces killed two terrorists in separate encounters. Security forces eliminated a terrorist in a brief encounter at Sail village in Pulwama district. Police sources told AIR that on a specific information a cordon and search operation was launched in the village. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The terrorist, who was a local youth and had joined militant rank recently, was earlier persuaded to surrender but he resorted to firing resulting in a brief encounter in which he was eliminated. The other terrorist, a resident of Anantnag district, was killed in the Awantipora area of south Kashmir.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to Police, the security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Churswoo village of Awantipora in the early hours today following an information about the presence of the terrorist there.<br />''<br />''The slain terrorist has been identified as Shahid, a resident of Bijbehara area of Anantnag district. He was asked to surrender by the security forces but he chose to engage them in a gun-battle and was killed after a brief exchange of fire. Arms and Ammunitions were also recovered from the encounter site.</span><br />