The meeting in the Arnia sector Jammu and Kashmir was underway since Thursday morning ended with the Army to kill the fourth terrorist who had been hiding in a makeshift bunker.

Another three terrorists were killed Thursday during fierce fighting with the army. Four civilians and three jawans were also killed in the encounter. The Army is conducting operations hairstyle in place.

An Army official said security forces had launched an operation cordon and search meeting place in Arnia on Friday morning to recover the bodies of civilians were attacked from a terrorist hideout in activation bunker fresh exchanges .

The dead also included four heavily armed militants who had taken refuge in a bunker after suspected to have infiltrated Arnia industry from across the border in Jammu district to conduct a fidayeen attack.

The attack comes ahead of the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the state on Friday to campaign for elections in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly. The attack coincided with the SAARC summit in Kathmandu attended by Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif.