Srinagar, Jan 29: Three militants were killed in a gunfight, first this year, in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Friday, police said. A police official said that the encounter started at Mandoora area of Tral area after a joint team of police, CRPF and army launched a joint cordon-and-search operation following specific inputs about the presence of the militants there. Sources said that all the three militants trapped in the area have been killed and when this report was filed, the search operation was still in progress.