MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 7: Special teams of the Azad Kashmir police were patrolling along the left bank of the River Jhelum to locate the bodies of the two alleged terrorists who were swept away by the violent current after they blew themselves up in an AJK village on Tuesday, a senior police official told Dawnhere on Wednesday.

Deputy Inspector-General of the AJK police, Sheikh Tahir Qayyum, said the teams were searching along the riverbank from the place of the Tuesday’s incident right up to Mangla dam in the southern Mirpur district.

River Jhelum separates Azad Kashmir’s five districts namely Muzaffarabad, Bagh, Sudhnoti, Kotli, and Mirpur from the Pakistani territory.

Three persons, whom the AJK officials suspected, could be involved in Monday’s attack on Murree Christian School, Murree, had blown themselves up with grenades while standing on a rock inside the river in Khapadar village, some 50 kilometres south of the AJK capital, in the jurisdiction of Dhirkot police station in district Bagh. Two of them were swept away by the violent current, and the body of the third was recovered by a villager, which was later removed to a hospital in Dhirkot.

The mutilated body, said the DIG, was handed over to a Punjab police team, led by SP CIA Rawalpindi, late on Tuesday with a grenade and a pair of shoes. The case against the terrorists was registered in Pakistan.

The DIG said that the grenade was recovered from one of the terrorists by a police constable, Arif, during body search.

They threatened to kill the unarmed policeman before running towards the river and positioning themselves on a rock.

Before detonating the explosive device, the DIG said, the terrorists told the villagers their enmity was with the United States and President Pervez Musharraf.