KUNA -- At least 22 people were killed and eight injured, including women and children, by terrorists in the Doda district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, late Sunday night. The toll is likely to go up with three of the eight injured battling for life, news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported Monday. Terrorists in a late night attack had pulled the victims out of their homes and killed them in Doda district.| The Indos are blaming Lashkar-e-Taiba. I'd have said the same thing, had I not guessed Hizbul Mujaheddin. |
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The gunmen killed the Hindus after dragging them out of their houses. The injured included a women and her daughter. Local journalist Haq Nawaz Nehru, who alerted journalists in Srinagar and Jammu late Sunday night, told Daily Times from Doda on the phone that gunmen wearing combat fatigues had reached the remote hamlets of Panjdobi and Thava and ordered villagers to come out of their houses. “They were herded to the house of a local village head, where the gunmen opened fire at them, killing 22 people on the spot,” he said. Senior police officials have rushed to the twin villages. SP Vaid, the inspector general of police (Jammu), said that Lashkar-e-Taiba (LT) militants were responsible for the massacre. VK Duggal, the union home secretary, told reporters that leads suggested the involvement of a “particular outfit”, but refused to name the outfit. A senior security official said that Lashkar had over 350 militants operating in Doda district and 90 percent of them were foreigners.