Reports: Over 20 dead in attack on tourists in Kashmir

According to media reports, more than 20 people were killed in an attack on tourists on tourists in the Indian Unruhergion Kashmir. The attackers had opened fire in a popular excursion area near the city of Pahangam and met 26 people, the Indian broadcaster NDTV and the newspaper « Greater Kashmir » reported citing civil servants. Most fatalities were tourists. There were also several injuries. There was initially no official confirmation of the number of victims.

India’s Interior Minister Amit Shah spoke of a terrorist act. He did not name the name. According to « Greater Kashmir », a group named The Resistance Front (Trf) confessed to the deed.

According to media reports, security forces assumed a targeted attack on tourists. This attack was much greater than the attacks that had been directed against civilians in the region in recent years, the head of the Union territory Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, said on the platform X. At first, he could not give an exact number of fatalities. In the Indian controlled part of Kashmir, extremist groups pursue the goal of fighting India’s sovereignty over the region.