Jammu: Six of family found dead at home under suspicious circumstances

India

oi-Prakash KL

Jammu, Aug 17: Six members of a family were found dead under suspicious circumstances at their home on Wednesday.

The deceased were identified as Sakina Begum, her two daughters Naseema Akhter and Rubina Bano, son Zafar Salim and two relatives Noor Ul Habib and Sajad Ahmad, Jammu and Kashmir police informed news agency PTI.

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The bodies were recovered from the family’s house in Sidhra locality. They have been shifted to Government Medical College and Hospital, the police added.

Police teams have rushed to the locality and further details are awaited, they said.

However, there are no bullet marks on the bodies, sources have informed The Times of India.

Meanwhile, terrorists shot dead a Kashmiri Pandit and injured his cousin on Tuesday at an apple orchard in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, which had seen similar attacks on the minority community in April.

This casualty raised the number of targeted killings to 21 this year.

Tuesday’s incident was a chilling reminder of the barbaric gunning down of a school principal Supinder Kaur last October.

According to police officials, two terrorists belonging to the banned Al-Badar organisation, came to the orchard this morning and lined up everyone.

After identification, they segregated Sunil Kumar Bhat and his cousin Pritmber Kumar Bhat and shot indiscriminately on them with their AK-47 rifles.

Both the cousins were immediately shifted to a hospital where Sunil Kumar succumbed to injuries. The condition of Pritmber Bhat is stated to be stable.