[1][2] Pakistan-trained Islamic terrorists massacred 35 Hindus, mostly labourers, and injured 11 in the Chamba district bordering Doda in Jammu on early hours of that day.
Twenty-six people were killed and eight injured in the Kalaban area under Police Station Tissa of Chamba District.
In another incident, at about 1:30 a.m. that morning, five people were killed and three injured in village Satrindi, District Chamba.
News of the massacre became public when two of the injured at Kalaban—Dhian Singh and Beli Ram—with blood oozing from their wounds, trudged eight kilometers through the dense forests report the mayhem to the nearest Mansa police station.
[4] Top Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists Billu Gujjar was arrested in Pathankot by Punjab Police a few days later in connection with this attack.