New Delhi -Segated multiple tourists and other wounded when suspicious militants opened fire against civilians in back controlled by the Indians, according to reports on the Indian and international media. Many points of sale, including the AFP French news agency, cited unidentified security officials who put the number of deaths such as the high axis 24, but there was no immediate confirmation of victims of the authorities.
The attack took place in the PAHALGAM area of the southern Kashmir, a picturesque destination dotted with meadows and glaciers that attract hundreds of thousands of Indian and foreign tourists every summer. This tourist traffic has increased in the last year, since militant violence in the largest record of Kashmir, which is disputed between India and neighbor Pakistan, has decreased.
The people tried in Tuesday’s attack were tasks for nearby hospitals. The police, the army and the paramilitary forces launched a search operation to find those responsible for the attack.
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“Our reports say that the militants of two hot appeared and opened indissimated fire to tourists.” The Indian Express The newspaper cited a senior police officer saying, without appointing him.
“The death toll is still being determined, so I do not want to go into those details. They will be officially transmitted as the situation becomes clearer. Unnecess proves to say that this attack is much larger than anything we have seen directed to civilians in recent years,” Omar Abdullah, Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, wrote in a publication on social networks.
Abdullah called the attack “shocking beyond belief” and said that no condemnation word could be enough to punish behind the shooting.
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The attack occurred when the American vice president JD Vance, along with his wife Usha and his children, paid a Visit a personal part To India. Vance with early week with the leader of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Usha Vance is a practicing Hindu whose parents are from India.
It was the sausage attack in the conflict coup region in almost a year, and it arrived at a time when Tourism was recovering. He Last important attack It happened in June 2024, when nine people were killed and 33 killed when militants attacked a bus that transported Hindu pilgrims.
Eight pilgrims were killed and 19 flavored in a similar attack in the region in 2017, when the militants attacked a bus that took them back to the famous temple of the Amarnath cave in southern Kashmir.
Kashmira is in full claimed by both India and Pakistan, but each nation has controlled its own part of the mountainous region for decades.
The picturesque Himalayan region has been regularly beaten by militant violence since an armed anti -india insurgency begged in 1989. The slow conflict has gained tens of thousands of lives approximately more than three decades.
“Firmly condemned the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir. Condolences to those who have lost their loved ones. I pray for the injured to recover as soon as possible,” said the prime minister in a position on social networks. “Those behind this atrocious act will be taken before justice … They are not saved! Your evil agenda will never succeed. Our resolution to combat terrorism is unwavering and will become stronger.”
India Interior Minister Amit Shah said he would visit the region to review security measures.
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