Eight killed in Valley

Published February 26, 2003

JAMMU, Feb 25: Eight people, including a Hindu family of four, were killed in two attacks in occupied Kashmir, police said on Tuesday.

Police said unidentified men barged into the house of a Hindu family in Seiot village in Rajouri district. The men indiscriminately sprayed bullets on the family and killed them on the spot, a police spokesman said.

Escaping from the area, the killers intercepted a truck on the Rajouri-Jammu highway and fired at the driver and his helper, seriously injuring them, the spokesman said.

In another incident, a spokesman claimed, police killed 4 militants in Udhampur. —AFP

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