Kashmir Separatists Execute 3 After Bid to Free Colleagues Fails
Muslim Kashmiri militants fighting for secession from India have killed all three hostages they took in an effort to free colleagues from jail, police said today.
The secessionists killed one hostage, H. L. Khera, the manager of a state-run machine tools factory, in broad daylight in front of Indian Kashmir’s heavily guarded police headquarters Tuesday afternoon.
Police said the bodies of the two others were found dumped in a Srinagar suburb late Tuesday night. They were identified as the vice chancellor of the University of Kashmir, Musheer ul-Haq, and his private secretary.
The three men were kidnaped in two separate incidents last Friday, and the Jammu and Kashmir Students Liberation Front claimed responsibility.
Srinagar has been under a virtually constant curfew since the militants’ campaign against Indian rule erupted into major violence in mid-January.
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