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Anantnag Encounter Update: According to reports, Army Colonel Manpreet Singh, Major Ashish, Deputy Superintendent of Jammu and Kashmir Police Humayun Bhat were critically injured in the gunfight and died later.

Anantnag Encounter: Officers from the Indian Army and the Jammu and Kashmir Police are among the five persons injured after the encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in the Anantnag district on Wednesday.

Three terrorists have reportedly been trapped, said news agency ANI.

Overcast conditions led to an increase in the minimum temperatures across Kashmir division, with the mercury settling above the freezing point at most places in the Valley, even as the Meteorological department forecast rains or snow over next few days.

The 300-km long Jammu-Srinagar national highway, the only surface link between Kashmir and rest of the country, was on Wednesday closed for vehicular traffic due to landslides triggered by rains in Ramban district.

Burhan Wani, 21-year-old poster boy of Hizbul Mujahideen, and two other militants were killed by security forces on last Friday.

Burhan Wani, the son of a headmaster and a school dropout, carried a reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head.

More than 20,000 people on Saturday attended the burial of top Hizbul commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani in south Kashmir`s Tral town.

Train services from Baramulla in Kashmir region to Banihal town in Jammu have also been suspended.

An encounter broke out between militants and security forces in Anantnag district of Kashmir Friday evening, police said.

A day after Srinagar witnessed the coldest night of the season, the minimum temperature increased at most places in Kashmir on Thursday providing some relief to the residents, even as the MeT Office here has forecast mainly dry weather over the next few days.