Suspected Islamic murderers guerrillas killed a teacher and his two sons in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday, the latest in a wave of attacks on civilians, police said.
They're less likely to be armed...
Shortly before dawn, three men with automatic weapons hidden inside their flowing Kashmiri gowns entered the victims' house in the village of Gopalpora, forced the men into a room and shot them, said police superintendent Mukesh Kumar. Schoolteacher Mohammad Shafi Wani and his elder son Noor Mohammad died immediately. Jehangir Wani, the younger son, died hours later in a hospital, officers said. Gopalpora is seven miles southeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu-Kashmir state. No motive for the killings was immediately known.
It being Kashmir, none was needed...
Police blamed the killings on separatist thugs rebels fighting for Kashmir's independence from India and its subjection to merger with Pakistan. Hundreds of angry villagers marched alongside the three coffins in a funeral procession to the local cemetery. Several youth burned tires and smashed car windows.
That did a lot of good, didn't it?
Civilians have been targeted in several grisly attacks this month in Indian-controlled Kashmir, including the beheading of three women and the shooting of a ruling party lawmaker as he emerged from a mosque after prayers. 
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