With little headway in the killing of seven civilians by militants in Rajouri district’s Upper Dangri villageon January 1-2 this year, members of the victim families on Monday threatened to migrate from the area and surrender ex gratia amount and jobs provided by J&K administration.

“Ninety days have passed since the killing of both my sons by militants, but the government agencies have not informed us about the progress of their investigation in the matter,’’ said Saroj Bala, who had lost her sons Deepak (27) and Prince (21) to militants’ bullets on the evening of January 1.

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The elder brother was supposed to join duty at Army’s field ordnance depot in Ladakh a week later. Prince was working with the Jal Shakti department.

“What will we do with the jobs and the money provided by the government after the killing of our children by militants; we are already dead,’’ said Saroj, adding “we only want justice for our children”.’ She also asked the authorities to reveal the names of the people who had provided logistics support to the militants as claimed by intelligence agencies.

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Another villager Satpal, who had lost his son Satish Kumar in the January 1 attack, wanted the authorities to furnish bank account details so that he can return the ex-gratia money.

Dangri panchayat sarpanch Dheeraj Sharma threatened to surrender the guns provided to village defence guards. Citing a recent statement of Director General of J&K Police Dilbagh Singh that “the militants were Pakistanis and might have returned to Pakistan’’, he cast doubts on the identity of the militants involved in the Dangri killings, he alleged the claim was only an excuse.

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Two unidentified militants had in twin attacks on January 1 evening and January 2 morning in Upper Dangri killed seven civilians including two siblings and injured 14 others, belonging to four families. Before the killings, the militants had asked the victims for their identity proof.

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