25 Slain at Hindu Wedding in Kashmir

Parts of India’s troubled Jammu and Kashmir state were under indefinite curfew and roads were blocked by police after 25 members of a Hindu wedding party were massacred. The curfew was imposed in towns including Kishtwar and Bhaderwah in a Muslim-majority area near the site of the killing Friday, police said. The bullet-riddled bodies, including those of two bridegrooms dressed in bloodstained wedding finery and with new, gold wedding rings on their fingers, were moved into a corrugated tin shed in the sweltering summer heat. Witnesses said five armed militants ordered the men and women from the wedding party to separate and demanded money before opening fire on the males.