Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday paid floral tributes to two soldiers, including a Major rank officer, who were martyred as militants opened fire on a search party in Shopian district of Kashmir.

Major Kamlesh Pandey and Sepoy Tanzin Chhultim were killed, and a jawan was injured in the firing by militants at Zainapora in Shopian district during a cordon and search operation launched by security forces.

Mehbooba and her deputy Nirmal Singh, joined Chinar Corps Commander Lt. Gen. J S Sandhu and officials from civil and police administration, to pay rich tributes to Major Pandey and Sepoy Tanzin Chhultim, in a solemn ceremony at Badamibagh cantonment here, an Army official said..