Srinagar
The two alleged militants that Army claimed to have gunned down in Uri along LoC on Thursday have been identified by local gravedigger and people as elderly (Octogenarians) duo, local media reports said.
When police handed over the bodies of the duo to locals of Gantamulla for Burial, “the grave digger and the local witnesses who saw the burial were shocked to see that the slain men were both elderly, too old to be militants,” Kashmir reader reported on Sunday.
A local who was present at the graveyard said that both the men who were buried were so old that they seemed to be in their 80s, the report added.
The report said that the slain duo was buried in two graves that had been dug days ago for the two unidentified militants killed last week in Handwara area. Those militants were not brought to the graveyard for some reason. Their graves had been lying open since then.
It added that locals of Gantamulla are now demanding that the army’s claim be investigated, as the men who were buried on Friday night were too aged to be militants.
