Srinagar, June 22: Two Indian Army soldiers and an infiltrator were killed in an attack by the Border Action Team (BAT), comprising of men from the Pakistan Army and militants, in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch sector this evening.

The Indian Army said it foiled the attack along the Line of Control. Unlike in the past, the militants did not mutilate the bodies of the soldiers.

A few hours earlier, the army had killed two infiltrators in the Keran sector along the LoC.

Officials said the BAT team violated the LoC around 2pm and entered 600 metres into Indian territory.

"They attacked an area-domination patrol of the Indian Army, leaving two soldiers dead," an official said. The soldiers have been identified as Naik Jadhav Sandip Sarjerao and Sepoy Mane Savan Balku, both from Maharashtra.

The patrol retaliated and killed one of the infiltrators and injured another.

"Pakistani posts engaged our posts in heavy firing. Our patrol killed one armed intruder. The body of the intruder is within visual reach. Another armed intruder was injured and he was taken away with the help of cover fire from Pakistani posts," an army spokesperson said.

BAT is a mix of the Pakistani Special Forces and members of militants groups like the Lashkar-e-Toiba. BAT teams have targeted army men on many occasions in the past, sometimes beheading the targets.

"Operations are in progress and heavy exchange of fire is going on," the spokesman said.

This is the second time in one month that the army has foiled an infiltration bid by the BAT.

On May 26, the army killed two militants on the LoC in the Uri sector of north Kashmir's Baramulla district.

On May 1, the BAT had mutilated the bodies of two Indian soldiers - head constable Prem Sagar of the BSF and Naib Subaidar Paramjit Singh of the army - on the LoC at the Krishna Ghati sub-sector of Poonch district in Jammu.