Fardeen Mohiuddin Khanday and Manzoor Ahmad Baba, age 16 and 21 respectively, were among the three suicide bombers who targeted the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp at Lethpora in Pulwama in Kashmire on Dec. 31 in which five security personnel were killed.
Khanday was from Hiana in Tral area of Kashmire and Baba from Drubgam in Pulwama district of the valley.
"It is a serious and worrisome sign," said Suresh Paul Vaid, director general of police of Jammu and Kashmire.
Talking to Arab News, he said: "We are taking this matter seriously and are having high-level discussions."
Masood Hussain, the editor of Kashmire Life, a weekly magazine from Srinagar, also expressed alarm at this development.
"This is the first time we have local boys going inside a military establishment and blowing themselves up. It is a new aspect of militancy that we have not witnessed before," said Hussain to Arab News.
"This is the first time that the entire operation has been carried out by local boys. Security personnel here admit that this is a very disturbing trend in militancy in Kashmire," he added.
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Srinagar-based senior journalist, Yusuf Jameel, said: "It is not a good sign for Kashmire that young educated boys are joining the myrmidons.
"This new trend of youngsters joining turbans began after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen
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commander, Burhan Wani, in July 2016 who was an icon for the new generation."