| Photo Credit:more-inBodies of two militants, killed in Kupwara’s Tangdhar on May 25-26, were exhumed on Tuesday evening by the Jammu and Kashmir police after protests by two families, who claimed the dead men were their relatives and not foreign militants as stated by the security forces. Handed to relatives“The process to exhume the bodies were started after receiving formal orders from district magistrate Kupwara. The bodies have been exhumed this evening and handed over to respected families,” Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Kupwara, Ambarkar Shriram Dinkar said. All the bodies were buried Tangdhar Sector’s Badwan area. Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Geelani said it was a matter of concern that the families were being denied the remains of their relatives.

Source: The Hindu June 05, 2018 16:54 UTC