JAMMU, Nov 5: Suspected militants shot dead four members of a Muslim family in occupied Kashmir on Sunday for refusing to allow the clan’s teenage daughter to wed a rebel, police said.

Three women and one man died in the attack in Manglogi village in Ramband district, 200 kilometres northeast of Jammu.

“The family refused to marry off their 15-year-old daughter and they slaughtered the whole family,” district police superintendent Basant Rath said.

Militants had killed the teenage girl in August after her father spurned a marriage offer from a rebel, Mr Rath said.

The girl’s parents, an older sister and a cousin were killed in the attack Early on Sunday.

In a separate incident on Sunday, police acting on a tip-off killed two men believed to be members of the Lashkar-i-Taiba as they hid in a house in Doda district.

“They were trapped in their hide-out and they were killed and arms and ammunition were taken from them,” said the Doda police superintendent.—AFP