India revives network of village guards in Kashmir after militant attack

Authorities reactivated an almost defunct network of 26,000 Village Defence Guards after militants killed seven residents of a Hindu community in a remote village in Jammu’s Rajouri district earlier in January.

India is reviving a network of thousands of village guards in Jammu and Kashmir, including arming some with automatic rifles, after a militant attack in the disputed region killed seven civilians earlier in January, a police official said.