1998 Prankote massacre

The 1998 Prankote massacre was the killing and beheading of 29 Hindus in the villages of Prankote and Dakikote by Islamist militants in the Udhampur district (now in Reasi district) of the erstwhile Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on 17 April, 1998. The victims included 13 women and children. The houses of those killed were later set to fire. Survivors claimed that the killers had told the villagers to convert to Islam and massacred the villagers after they refused. More than 1,000 villagers fled their homes in the area after the massacre. It also provoked outrage across India. The massacre was one of a series of massacres of Hindu villagers by Islamist militants in 1998.