Jammu, March 30 -- The last rites of four police personnel, killed in an encounter with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, were performed with full honours at their native places with participating officers vowing to eliminate terrorism from the region.

Head constable Jagbir Singh of Mattu-Khour in Jammu's Akhnoor and selection grade constables - Tariq Ahmad of Chamba-Panthal in Reasi, Balwinder Singh Chib of Kana Chak, and Jaswant Singh of Londi Morh in Kathua were killed in the two-day gunfight in the remote Safiyan forest area on Thursday.

Two Pakistani terrorists were also killed in the operation. While the bodies of three policemen were retrieved from the encounter site on Friday evening, Jagbir Singh's body was rec...