Author: PTI
Publication: Rediff on Net
Date: June 8, 2003
URL: http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/jun/08jk.htm
Militants have killed three of the
four persons they abducted in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir while
the whereabouts of the fourth is unknown, sources said in Jammu on Sunday.
Militants barged into the villages
of Channa Sergale and Rai Siyal in the Billawar forest near Kathua and
abducted four persons late on Saturday night, they said.
The hostages were taken to the upper
forest belt and tortured throughout the night, the sources said adding
three of them were killed and the limbs of one of the slain chopped off.
Their bodies were recovered on Sunday
from Dyggaini forest area by the police.
Those killed have been identified
as Prakash Singh, Gyan Singh, Sudesh alias Billu and the missing person
as Hans Raj, the sources said.
A major operation has been launched
to trace Hans Raj, who police fear might have also been killed.
