The Indian police say that the gunmen have killed at least 20 tourists in a Kashmir resort controlled by India. Two senior police officers said that at least four armed men, whom they described as militants, fired the tourist dishes from a short distance on Tuesday, April 22. The officers said at least others were injured, many in serious condition. They talked under anonymity according to departmental policy. The authorities collected at least 20 bodies in Baisaran Meadow, about five kilometers from the tourist city of the disputed region or Pahalgam.
Police described the incident as a “terrorist attack” and blamed the militants fighting the Indian government. It seemed to be an important change in the regional conflict, in which tourists have been largely saved. “This attack is much larger than anything we have seen directed to civilians in recent years,” wrote Omar Abdullah, the senior elected official of the region, on social networks. The police were looking for the attackers. There was no immediate claim or responsibility.
The Interior Minister of India, Amit Shah, was heading to Srinagar, the main city in Kashmir controlled by the Indians. He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on an official visit in Saudi Arabia, has been informed. “We are going to fall heavy in the perpetrators with the consequences of resin,” Shah wrote on social networks.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a key resistance leader of Kashmir, condemned what he described as a “cowardly attack against tourists”, writing on social networks that “such violence is unacceptable and against the spirit of Kashmir.”
The attack coincided with the visit to the Indian of the American vice president JD Vance, who is at a four -day stop. “Approximately a few days, we have bones surpassed by the beauty of this country and its people. Our thoughts and prayers are while crying this horrible attack,” Vance said on social networks.
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