JAMMU: Militants last week struck in a locality bordering Nanak Nagar in Jammu city killing two persons and injuring four others.
Two masked men suspected to be Punjab militants walked down to a market on railway road bordering the locality at about 7:45 p.m. and opened fire indiscriminately on passersby. They then quickly walked away to a by lane nearby from where they took their scooter and fled. Of the six injured 2 later succumbed to their injuries.
One of the deceased was a businessman Shanti Jain who had parked his car on the roadside and was sympathizing with a friend whose shop was damaged in a fire incident. However two of his grand children who were sitting in the car escaped unhurt. The other deceased has not been identified.
The inspector general of police Jammu range S.S. Wazir told media persons that police suspected the hand of Sikh militants belonging to Amar pal Singh alias Master Group who are active in Jammu now-a-days No arrest has been made by the police.
The incident coming cight days after an RDX explosion in Indira Chowk in the old city which left two dead and 38 injured has sent shock waves in the city.
A red alert has been sounded in Jammu as authorities launched a massive hunt. All the deputy commissioners and senior police functionaries in the region have been asked to maintain strict vigil by deploying more police and para-military troops in the vulnerable areas and increase patrolling to defeat the nefarious designs of the misguided militants who were working at the behest of forces across the border the sources said.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 11, 1994
