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Watery grave for Lashkar militants

New Delhi: Four Lashker-e-Taiba militants met with an unusual end when the Jammu and Kashmir police chose not to fire a single bullet and instead used water to drown them in their bunker.

The incident happened last week in Rafiabad. Senior police officials said the militants, all Pakistani nationals, resorted to heavy firing from the bunker. As civilian casualties were feared, the police hit upon the idea of filling the bunker with water. Even as water was being forced into the bunker appeals were made to the militants to surrender, the officials said.

After some time, firing from the bunker stopped and the police recovered four bodies, they said.

“We could not have fired and a gun shot could have led to civilian casualty. My instructions to my boys is that optimum care should be taken to ensure that not a single innocent [person] came in the line of fire,” DGP Kuldeep Khoda said. — PTI.

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