Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 5: Militants abducted a man and injured his father in Hajin town of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district late last night.
A spokesman, in a statement, said that militants barged into the house of Abdul Gaffar Bhat in Hajin around 11.15 pm and beat up the inmates. They abducted both Gaffar and his son Manzoor Ahmad Bhat.
However, Gaffar managed to escape from their custody despite suffering an injury. He has been hospitalised, but his son Manzoor is still with the militants. A massive manhunt to trace the abducted person has been launched.
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In a similar incident, gunmen abducted and killed another civilian, Naseer Ahmad Sheikh, in Hajin on Monday night.
Police said investigation so far has revealed that Mohammad Saleem Parrey of Hajin, who joined the militancy last summer and is associated with LeT, is the mastermind behind the last two abductions in Hajin.
Evidences collected so far indicated that, Saleem along with his accomplices who are Pakistanis, on the 3rd of April, went to the house of in-laws of Naseer Ahmed Parrey, fired on the inmates injuring three of them, and abducted Naseer. They fired at two ladies and they were brutally beaten up as well. Both of them are under treatment at hospital.
Consequently Naseer was found dead the other day in the outskirts of Hajin, with three firearm injuries in his abdomen.
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