Srinagar: Three militants were killed and an army soldier injured in a night-long gunfight in Kashmir's Kupwara district, an official said on Sunday.

"At 8 p.m. yesterday (Saturday) a search party of 21 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and police was fired upon by hiding militants in Khumhaira forests (Handwara) in the Kupwara district," a senior police official told IANS here.