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| Abducted policemen killed in Kashmir |
| 2008-04-07 |
| SRINAGAR — Two policemen, who were abducted in Jammu & Kashmir on Thursday, was found murdered. They were killed by suspected rebels. The policemen were seized by gunmen from a remote area in hilly district of Kupwara on Thursday, hours after police in capital Srinagar announced that they had captured chief spokesperson of frontline indigenous rebel outfit Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Abdul Khaliq Dar alias Junaid-ul-Islam and one of a string of top-ranking rebel leaders to have been arrested or killed in past two weeks. Officials in Srinagar said that the policemen Tariq Ahmed and Nazir Ahmed working at a police station in Sogam deep inside northwestern Kupwara district, were waylaid on Thursday afternoon. Their corpses were yesterday found lying in woods in the Sogam neighbourhood, they added. "They have been killed by slitting their throats," a senior police official said. Local news agency reported that militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed had admitted to the killing. Meanwhile, security across the state has been beefed up further ahead of a one-day strike called by separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani against what he alleges is inhuman treatment being meted out to Kashmiri political prisoners in jails. Various separatist outfits have endorsed the shutdown call for Saturday. |
| Posted by:john frum |