SRINAGAR, Oct. 22 -- Three Jaish-e-Mohammed militants were killed by the security forces in an encounter in South Kashmir's Tral area, Dilbag Singh, Director General of Police (DGP), Jammu and Kashmir, said on Tuesday.

According to news agency reports, Singh said the trio was allegedly behind the killing of two brothers, hailing from the Gujjar community, in Kashmir in August this year.

The Kashmir Zone Police, too, on its official Twitter account confirmed that three terrorists had been killed, adding the search in the area was on. They, however, added the "identities and affiliations being ascertained".

Two of them are believedto be foreigners and one is a local militant. They had reportedly entered a newly constructed house where the ...