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Monday, April 12, 1999
Youth beheaded by militants
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
JAMMU, APRIL 11: In yet another grisly act, militants beheaded a 20-year-old youth in Rajouri district, a police spokesman said here today.Armed militants barged into a house of one Alam Din Gujjar in village Dadsan-Bala of Thanamandi tehsil and kidnapped his son, Mohammad Riyaz last night, the spokesman said, adding that the abductors then took Riyaz to a nearby forest and beheaded him.Police recovered the headless body on the outskirts of the village and handed it over to the victim's parents. In Poonch district, ultras set a residential house afire, the spokesman said. It was completely destroyed, the spokesman said. He said the police also recovered an unidentified body from Chinab river near Gogla in Doda district. Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.

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