Two militants, five security force personnel, including a CRPF officer, and a civilian were killed after a 56-hour encounter in Kupwara, police said on Sunday.

A police spokesman said the operation in the Babagund area began on Friday morning and the bodies of both the militants were found at the site. Their identities and affiliations are being ascertained.

The spokesman said a CRPF jawan, identified as Sham Narayan Singh Yadav who was injured on Friday, succumbed to injuries on Sunday taking the number of security force fatalities to five.

Two CRPF personnel, inspector Pintu and constable Vinod, and two policemen, selection grade constables Naseer Ahmad and Ghulam Mustafa Barah, were killed in the gunfight on Friday. Waseem Ahmad Mir, a civilian who suffered bullet injury, died in a hospital the same day.

Security forces had launched a search in Babagund after getting information about the presence of militants. 'The area where the terrorists were hiding was congested and civilians in the adjoining houses had to be evacuated,' the police spokesman said.