Curfew in Poonch

By Our Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, AUG. 28. The Jammu and Kashmir Government has imposed an indefinite curfew in Poonch town following violent protests against the killing of two Hindu priests and five members of a Muslim family. They were among 20 persons killed in a fresh wave of violence across the State.

Police said that a group of militants abducted two priests, Mahatma Narotam Dass Piyari and Mahatma Devi Dass, from the Mata Kalika temple at Dundak, near Surankot, in Poonch district late on Monday night. They were taken a little distance away and beheaded. The militants then fled. In the afternoon, a group of unidentified gunmen again descended on the area and kidnapped Haji Ghulam Hussain Shah and his family, when they were on way to Marhote village in Surankot. All the five members of the family, Haji Hussain Shah, his wife Hajra Bi, two children and a women were killed by the abductors. Police said militants were behind these killings.

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