From the Press Trust of India, with thanks to Twostellas:
JAMMU: Terrorists on Saturday shot dead a man and his son and critically injured his daughter after brutually torturing the trio with hot iron rods in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said.
A group of four to five Hizbul-Mujahideen terrorists barged into the house of one Bashir Ahmed in village Maswa-Deeda in Mahore tehsil, they told PTI.
The terrorists tied 55-year-old Bashir, his 12-year-old son Akram and daughter Nazia and branded them with hot iron rods and inflicted injuries on them with sharp edged weapons, they said.
Later, the terrorists opened fire on the three, they said, adding, the father-son duo died on the spot while the girl was critically injured.