Pahalgam militant attack: PM Modi cuts short Saudi trip, lands in Delhi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday landed in Delhi after cutting short his Saudi Arabia trip after a militant attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam that killed 26 persons and left 17 others injured, ANI reported.

Upon arriving in New Delhi, Modi held a meeting with National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar at the Palam airport in New Delhi, The Indian Express reported.

The attack took place on Tuesday in the Baisaran area, which is located nearly four km from the tourist spot of Pahalgam in Anantnag district.

Two to three militants fired indiscriminately at a group of tourists, most of whom were from outside the state.

Of those who died, six were from Maharashtra, three each from Gujarat and Karnataka, two from West Bengal, and one each from Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chandigarh, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Kerala. One of those who died was from Nepal.

This is the first major terrorist attack targeting civilians in Kashmir since the Centre revoked Jammu and Kashmir’s special status in 2019.

Political parties and religious leaders in Jammu and Kashmir called for a complete shutdown on Wednesday to protest the militant attack.

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