A 50-hour-long anti-militancy operation in south Kashmir’s Shopian district concluded on Saturday with the toll mounting to four two of them militants, an Army man and a labourer.

In another gunfight that erupted hours after the J&K Government asked tourists and yatris to leave, two Jaish-e-Mohammad militants were killed in north Kashmir’s Sopore sub-district.

The Shopian operation was launched around 8 pm on Thursday in Pongshana village of Vehil and the exchange of fire started around 1 am. In the initial gunfight, two Army men Sepoy Rambir Singh and Sepoy Deepak Kumar were injured. Sepoy Rambir succumbed to his injuries at Army’s base hospital in Srinagar. Belonging to Hulwana village of Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, he is survived by his wife and two sons.

A senior police official said the militants killed in Shopian had been identified as Zeenat ul Islam Naikoo and Manzoor Ahmad Bhat, both locals. “Both were Jaish-e-Mohammad activists and had several terror-related cases registered against them,” the police official said.

The gunfight in Sopore began around 6 am after a joint team of the police, CRPF and the Army was carrying out a search operation following intelligence inputs.