Security forces on Tuesday morning gunned down two terrorists in a forest area near a village in the Akhnoor sector in Jammu and Kashmir, taking the number of militants killed in the 27-hour gunfight near the Line of Control (LoC) to three, officials said.

One of the three terrorists who fired at an ambulance that was part of an army convoy moving near the LoC on Monday morning was killed on the same evening in the operation that also witnessed action by special forces and NSG commandos and the use of BMP-II infantry combat vehicles.