The terrorist attack against tourists in Kashmir

New Delhi -This 20 tourists were killed and many others wounded on Tuesday when the alleged militants opened fire against civilians in cashmere controlled by the Indians, according to reports on Indian and international media. Many points of sale, including the News French news agency, quoted unidentified security officials that put the number of deaths up to 24, but there was no immediate confirmation of the casualties of the authorities.

Two senior police officers, who also talked about anonymity, told News that at least 20 bodies had been recovered after several armed men fired dozens of tourists from a short distance on Tuesday. The officers said that at least three dozen others were injured, and many in serious condition.

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 injured people in Tuesday’s attack were taken to nearby hospitals. The police, the army and the paramilitary forces launched a search operation to find those responsible for the attack.

“Our reports say that two or three militants appeared and opened indiscriminate 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 people behind the shooting.

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, promised his support for India after the mortal attack.

“Deeply disturbing news of Kashmira,” Trump wrote on social networks. “The United States remains firm with India against terrorism.”

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 met at the beginning of the week with the leader of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Usha Vance is a practicing Hindu whose parents are from India.

It was the worst attack in the region affected by the conflict 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 died and 33 injured when militants attacked a bus that transported Hindu pilgrims.

Eight pilgrims died and 19 were injured in a similar attack in the region in 2017, when the militants attacked a bus that took them back from the famous temple of the Amarnath cave in the south of 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 -union insurgency began in 1989. The slow conflict has gained tens of thousands of lives for 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 Prime Minister Modi in a position on social networks. “Those behind this atrocious act will be taken before justice … They will not be saved! Your evil agenda will never succeed. Our resolution to combat terrorism is unwavering and will become even stronger.”

India Interior Minister Amit Shah said he would visit the region to review security measures.

“Angled by the terrorist attack against tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir. My thoughts are with the family members of the deceased,” Shah said in a publication on social networks, and added: “Those involved in this act of unpleasant terror will not be saved, and we will give each other much in the perpetrators with the toughest consequences.”

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