Jammu, Mar. 21 (PTI): Terrorists struck again for the second time in as many days when two of them opened fire at an army camp on Jammu-Pathankot Highway in Samba district on Saturday and were killed in the gun battle that followed.

The militants opened fire and lobbed grenades at an army camp in Meshwara area of Samba around 5:50am, security officials said.

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said in Delhi that two terrorists have been killed in the operation.

A civilian passing by the area fell off his bicycle during the firing and was injured in the fall, the Army said.

Lt. Col. Manish Mehta, defence public relations officer, said it was difficult to say whether the two militants were from the same group that had attacked a police station in Kathua on Friday.

”At 5.45am, the terrorists had opened fire and let me tell you nobody has been injured. No soldier or civilian has been injured. The individual who has been injured had fallen off from his cycle during the firing. It is not a bullet or a splinter injury,” Mehta told reporters.

”They [attackers] were not trying to enter any unit,” he added.

Officials said the Jammu-Pathankot Highway has been closed for vehicular traffic as a precautionary measure.

Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh told reporters that, ”The first gunshots were heard at around 5:30am. One person was injured during the firing. As the state has been put on high alert following yesterday's attack, the militants could not launch a bigger attack on Samba.”

”Security forces have been alerted and will prevent such attacks. Combing operation is under way,” he said.

This is the second such terror attack in Jammu in as many days.

Militants in army fatigues had stormed a police station in Jammu's Kathua on Friday, killing three security personnel and two civilians, and leaving 11 others including a senior police officer, wounded.

Two militants were also killed in the gun battle.