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The country has witnessed militant question for the past respective months, a elder serviceman said. (Representative/ Express record photograph by Praveen Khanna)
Two colony defence guards (VDGs) were killed connected Thursday successful a militant onslaught successful the Chatroo country of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district.
The VDGs were identified arsenic Kuldeep Kumar and Nazir. The Kashmir Tigers militant outfit has claimed work for their killings.
Senior officials of the territory confirmed that some the VDGs had been reported missing earlier successful the day, earlier the militant outfit released their photographs. Police and information forces person rushed to the area.
The country has witnessed militant question for the past respective months, a elder serviceman said, adding that during the caller Assembly elections, determination had been exchanges of occurrence betwixt militants and information forces successful the country connected astatine slightest 2 occasions.
Meanwhile, sources said that some the VDGs had gone to the forests astatine Kuntwara successful Chatroo with livestock successful the morning. They did not instrumentality by evening.
Before colony residents approached the police, militants released the photographs of the 2 VDGs with a connection that they were killed.
This is the 2nd militant onslaught successful Jammu state successful the past 9 days. On October 29, Army troops killed each the 3 militants who had attacked an ambulance successful Jammu district’s Battal area.
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