Two Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants, including a Pakistani national, were on Tuesday killed in an encounter while a civilian died and 20 others sustained injuries during clashes with security forces near the scene of gunbattle in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

A police spokesman said a joint patrol of the security forces launched searches in the Kundallan area of the district in the early hours following credible leads about the presence of terrorists there.