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In Jammu and Kashmir, on Tuesday i.e. Tuesday, terrorists fired on tourists, in which 26 people died and 20 are injured. Among those who died were Indian tourists along with an Italy and an Israeli tourist.
The attack took place at around 2.45 pm in the Besaran Valley of Pahalgam. The incident is being prominently covered in the world media.
Read what wrote on this attack from Britain’s Daily Mail to CNN of America …
Daily Mail wrote …
In Kashmir of India, gunmen opened fire on a group of tourists at around 2:30 pm on Tuesday afternoon. The Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir said that the attack is the biggest attack targeting common citizens in the past years.
Indian police have said that at least 24 people have been killed, but according to local reports, the death toll is expected to be between 26 and 30.
After the attack, many injured people are lying on the ground in the dreadful pictures which have surfaced on social media and their family members are shouting for help sitting with them. A woman was crying crying, please save my husband. For God, save him.
France 24 wrote …
A senior police officer said that at least 24 people were killed in an attack on tourist in Indian Kashmir on Tuesday. Officials have described it as the most horrific attack on ordinary citizens in the last few years.
PM Modi Narendra Modi condemned the attack in Pahalgam’s retreat and promised that the attackers would be raised in the dock. A tour guide told AFP that he reached the spot after hearing the firing sound and took some of the injured sitting on a horse.
The attack was carried out by targeting tourists in Pahalgam, which is about 90 km from the main city of Srinagar. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the rebels have fought in the Muslim -dominated area since 1989.
Don wrote
There was a terrorist attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, which is a famous tourist spot in the Muslim -dominated area. Thousands of tourists come here every year in summer, because violence has decreased in this area for a few years.
Some people said that the injured have been admitted to the local hospital, but they are not allowed to talk to the media.
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said that I strongly condemn the cowardly attack on tourists in Pahalgam, killing five people and injured several.
In the recent few years, the attacks targeted by tourists in Kashmir have become less, but not completely over. Alajjira wrote …
In Bharti Kashmir, armed people opened fire on a group of tourists, fearing some killing. Police said several tourists were injured in the terrorist attack on Tuesday, when they were roaming at the Besaran Grass Ground, about 5 km from the resort City Pahalgam.
Kashmir separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq condemned the attack as a cowardly attack. He said that such violence is not tolerated and is against the culture of Kashmir, which welcomes tourists with love and warmth. CNN wrote …
Officials said at least one tourist was killed and 13 others were injured in a suspected terrorist attack in the Himalayan area of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. The attack took place on a tourist spot named Pahalgam in the hill Anantnag district.
Officials said the terrorists opened fire on a group of tourists and the injured have been taken to the Main Hospital in the district for treatment.
IGP VK Birdi of Kashmir said that this area is in an area where the train cannot run, so it is taking some time for the rescue team to reach there, but one of the people who have been brought to the hospital so far have died. The attack took place in the Basaron Valley, where it can be reached only by riding on foot or horse.