Jammu: In a major security lapse, one of the accused in the massacre of 30 migrant Hindu labourers in Qasim Nagar locality of Jammu city in 2002, escaped on February 11 from a police lockup in Surankote of Poonch district, police sources said.

Altaf Hussain, a Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) member of a six-member group that included a foreign mercenary and an LeT hit man Abu Tallah involved in the massacre on July 13, 2002 gave a slip to security men and escaped from the police lockup early on February 11 morning, the sources said.

Hussain, a resident of Fazalabad village of Surankote was taken there in connection with the case sometime back, they said.

PTI