Two Security Force (SF) personnel were killed during an encounter with militants in Khrew area in Pampore town in Pulwama District of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) on January 21, reports Daily Excelsior. Acting on a tipoff, SFs including 50 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) of Army and Awantipora Police raided a militant hideout in Zantrag forest area in Khrew where militants were believed to be hiding. As the SFs zeroed-in on the hideout in the forest village, the hiding militants fired indiscriminately on the troops resulting in fatal injuries to an Army and Special Operation Group (SOG) personnel, identified as Rifleman Rahul of 50 RR and SOG personnel Shahbaz Ahmad of Manjakote in Rajouri, who later succumbed to their injuries. Militants fled from the spot after the initial encounter and SFs conducted searches of the forest villages but could not trace them.