Four lashkar-e-Tayyeba (leT) militants and a paratrooper were killed in a fierce gun-battle in Hafrada forests of north Kashmir’s Handwara pocket in Kupwara district on Thursday morning in third encounter the region in past 11 days. The encounter triggered off shortly after culmination of another gunfight in Rafiabad belt of Baramulla on Wednesday afternoon that killed a soldier and a lashkar-e-Islam (leI) militant.