Bodies handed over to relatives

JAMMU, MARCH 3. Three police personnel were still missing while the bodies of 16 policemen, killed in a militant ambush in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday were today handed over to their relatives for cremation.

A police official said here that the policemen would be cremated with full state honours. Ex-Gratia and other relief would be given to next of the kin as per the government rules.

Three of the seriously injured policemen, admitted to the Government Medical College hospital here, were stated to be out of danger. Fifteen bodies have been identified so far. One body could not be recognised due to severe injuries on its face.

The deceased included a special police officer and a medical assistant. The militants attacked the vehicle in which the victims were travelling from both sides of the road at a bridge in Gambhir Mughla with grenades, rockets and automatic weapons.

The 28-strong police party was returning to the Manjakot police station in Rajouri from kanabal forest after investigating into the killings of two civilians by militants on Thursday night.

- UNI

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