A senior minister in occupied Kashmir accused police of ineptitude during a attack on an election rally where he was injured, as seven more deaths were reported Sunday in the insurgency.
State Finance Minister Muzaffar Hussain Beigh demanded a judicial inquiry into police performance during the attack on the rally Thursday, in which 11 people were killed including two policemen.
Beigh and state Tourism Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir were among 70 people injured in the attack in the northern town of Uri.
"They (policemen) were so stone-hearted that they didn't even lift the dead bodies," Beigh said late Saturday, adding that his staffers did the rescue work.
Beigh said there were some "rotten eggs" in the police department who needed to be thrown out.
The police leadership tried to placate the minister by suspending two senior police officers in Uri and setting up a team to probe the incident, a police spokesman said.
A little known group called the Save Kashmir Movement claimed responsibility for the attack.
But Beigh said intelligence agencies established he was on the hit-list of Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Suspected Mujahideen shot dead a member of occupied Kashmir's ruling People's Democratic Party in the southern Anantnag district and a government employee in the neighbouring Pulwama district, a police spokesman said.
Occupation troops also killed five alleged Mujahideen overnight and Sunday including a commander of the hard-line group Jaish-e-Mohammad, police said.
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