Lashkar-e-Toiba blamed for killings

The information gathered from the massacre sites points out that all the attackers were foreign mercenaries, he said. A militant killed later in encounter with security forces at Dangri near Bal-Jarala was identified as Nazir, an LeT militant, he said, adding he is believed to have been involved in the massacre as he was coming from that very direction where the massacres had taken place.

Meanwhile, bodies of the 22 Hindus, who were massacred byunidentified militants at three different places in Rajouri and Udhampur districts yesterday, were cremated today in the respective villages amidst tight security even as indefinite curfew continued in the Rajouri township for the second consecutive day while prohibitory orders were enforced in Sunderbani and Nowshera.

Army staged a flag march and para-military forces carried out patrolling in the three townships to prevent any violent backlash to the killing.

Official sources said that the decision to continue the curfew was taken at a meeting in the morning following fears that some untoward incident might take place at the cremation. The situation in all the three towns was reported to be tense.