NEW DELHI // The Indian army has admitted it made a mistake in shooting dead two teenagers in Indian-administered Kashmir this week, in a rare admission of fault.
The teenagers died after soldiers fired at a car on the outskirts of Srinagar on Monday, while another youngster was critically wounded.
“We take responsibility for the death of the two boys in Kashmir,” the chief of the army’s northern command, Lt Gen DS Hooda, said on Friday.
“We admit a mistake was made... there was some information about a white car with terrorists. Obviously, the identity was mistaken in this case.”
Lt Gen Hooda promised an investigation into the deaths that would be conducted employing “the highest standard of transparency”.
* Agence France-Press
