In a shocking incident, militants chopped off the noses of six persons, including a woman and thrashed another person at a village in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said in Jammu today. A group of about seven to eight suspected foreign mercenaries, in combat dress, descended the Panihad village of the district and thrashed one Abdul Khaliq in the intervening night of March 27 and 28, reported Press Trust of India on Saturday. Later, the militants went to the house of one Mir Waiz and in his absence abused his family members and cut the noses of his wife Fatima, his son Mohammad Razaq and a guest Nisar Hussain. After leaving Waiz's house, the militants went to the house of one Noor Hussain and chopped off his nose and also of two of his two sons.
The turban and automatic weapons set regards this sort of thing as good fun...
Police and security forces have rushed to the area and launched search operations to track down the militants, the sources said, adding the identity and the outfit to which the militants belong couldnot be ascertained so far. Meanwhile, report from Poonch district said that a teenager SaleemJaffri had been missing from Palera village since March 26. Police search was on to find out his remains whereabouts. |