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Terrorists kidnap 9 Hindus in J&K, kill 4 of them
Suspected militants abducted nine Hindu villagers at gunpoint in a remote area of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday and soon murdered four of them. The fate of the others is not known, the police said.A senior police official, confirming the gory incident, said the villagers had gone up in the hills of Basantgarh in Udhampur district with their cattle for grazing. They were spotted by the gunmen who seized them at gunpoint. "The bodies of four of the villagers have been found lying in the woods, but the fate of the five others is not known," said deputy inspector-general of police (Jammu range) Lalit I. Mohanty. He added that the victims corpses bore bullet wounds. The DIG went on to say: "It is up in the mountains where the gory incident has occurred. We have sent a police party with a contingent of the Border Security Force (BSF) to launch a search operation to secure the release of the remaining five abductees if they have not been harmed and to capture the marauders." The latest reports reaching Jammu, the states winter capital, said that the villagers were seized by militants along a meadow in the Ludana area near Loran Gala. The reports added that among the slain men were three brothers. The victims who bodies were found have been identified by the police as Shyam Lal, Angrez Singh, Sunit Singh and Om Prakash. Among those still missing are Ramesh Chand, Jagdish Lal and Yog Raj, as well as two others. The reports also said that before seizing the villagers, the gunmen had kidnapped two other villagers, Seraj Din and Rukum Din, from the same village. Posted by: john 2006-04-30 |
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