Fifteen members of a family were slaughtered by Indian troops in Lanjot village
of Kotil district in Azad Jammu and Kashmir late on Thursday night.
In military uniforms, equipped with small automatic weapons and hand grenades,
seven assailants sneaked into a house in Lanjot village after crossing the Line of Control
and slit the throats of inmates of a house with bayonets and opened fire, killing 11
of them on the spot and wounding five others. Four of the injured succumbed to
injuries at the District Headquarter Hospital, Kotli.
Four children, aged 2 to 10 and six women were among the victims.
The attackers took with them the heads of three bodies, the only survivor
Muhammad Yunas told the police at the DHQ Hospital. He said seven persons
clad in Indian military uniforms barged into the house of Murtaza s/o Abdul Hamid
at about 1:00am on Friday and slaughtered the inmates.