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| Moslem Murderers Hide in Mosque, Use 40 Women as Shields |
| 2004-06-26 |
| From NDTV ... In an encounter in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir ... security forces rescued 60 civilians, including 40 women who were trapped inside a mosque in Litter village of Pulwama district. [Two] militants had taken shelter in the mosque .... as security forces launched massive house-to-house searches to nab the gunmen involved in the gruesome murder of an IRCON engineer Sudhir Kumar Pundir and his brother yesterday. The militants opened fire on the advancing securitymen and after a brief gunbattle, security forces rescued the trapped civilians from the mosque. In the meantime, the militants escaped from the mosque and took shelter in a nearby residential house and opened fire on the troops, killing a jawan and wounding an officer. In the retaliatory fire, two unidentified militants were killed inside the house. ... Earlier this morning, security forces sealed off three more villages including Sagoo-Handhama from where police recovered the blood-soaked bodies of the IRCON engineer and his brother yesterday. |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #1 I can identify, I grew up in a Litter town too. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-06-26 5:51:15 PM |