Several tourists feared killed in Pahalgam militant attack
Several tourists were feared killed in an attack by suspected militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on Tuesday, The Hindu reported.
More than a dozen others were reportedly injured in the attack in Anantnag district’s Baisran area. Baisran is located nearly four km from the tourist spot of Pahalgam.
The details of the attack were not immediately clear.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that the attack on tourists was an abomination.
“The perpetrators of this attack are animals, inhuman and worthy of contempt,” Abdullah said on social media. “No words of condemnation are enough.”
The chief minister said that the deaths were being ascertained. “Needless to say this attack is much larger than anything we’ve seen directed at civilians in recent years,” he added.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that he had briefed Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the attack and held a meeting with the security officials. “Will shortly leave for Srinagar to hold an urgent security review meeting with all the agencies,” he said on social media.
Shah added that those involved in the “dastardly act of terror will not be spared, and we will come down heavily on the perpetrators with the harshest consequences”.
Modi said that those responsible for the attack “will not be spared”.
“Their evil agenda will never succeed,” the prime minister said on social media. “Our resolve to fight terrorism is unshakable and...
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