Two BSF personnel were killed while four others injured when militants opened fired at their vehicle just outside the Awantipora IAF airfield in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday. Immediately after the firing, the other BSF personnel present on the spot retaliated but the militants fled.

Official sources said a squad of Border Security Force personnel was changing guard at the airfield in Pulwama, 33 kms from Srinagar, on Saturday afternoon when a group of militants opened fire at them from automatic weapons.

The BSF is deployed for securing the Indian Air Force airfield and the squad that came under militant attack belongs to the 'G' company of BSF's 165th battalion.

A reinforcement contingent of the Rashtriya Rifles and the BSF has reached the area for search operation.