Bodies Of Three Missing Civilians, Including A Teen, Found In J&K's Kathua
The bodies were sighted in Ishu Nallah in Malhar area by drones during a joint search operation by the police and Army
The bodies of three civilians, including a teenager, who went missing while on their way to attend a wedding, were found in Kathua district, Jammu and Kashmir, on Saturday.
The bodies of Varun Singh (15) of Dehota, his uncle Yogesh Singh (32) and maternal uncle Darshan Singh (40) were sighted in Ishu Nallah in Malhar area by drones during a joint search operation by the J&K police and the Indian Army this afternoon.
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The bodies were later retrieved from the scene after a hectic effort as the area was steep, an official said.
The official further stated that a preliminary investigation has ruled out a terror angle, as there were no visible signs of injury on the bodies. The exact cause of death will be determined after a postmortem.
The civilians had been missing since Thursday night following which a large-scale search operation was launched in the Lohai Malhar area of Kathua district to locate them. The Indian Army, along with the Jammu and Kashmir Police’s Special Operations Group (SOG), conducted the joint manhunt.
Locals in the area had said the three civilians disappeared around 8:30 p.m on Thursday. They had left home to attend a wedding in the Billawar area. The wedding party was travelling from Dehota village of Billawar to Surag village in Lohai Malhar.
In a similar civilians missing incident in February, the bodies of two villagers, Shamsher (37) and Roshan (45), were found in the village of Kohag in Billawar. However, their postmortem later revealed they had been strangled to death.
(With inputs from agencies)
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