At least 24 people died after shooting a group of domestic tourist groups visiting a popular beauty spot in Kashmir, a gunman, and told the BBC.
This attack occurred in Pahalgam, a picturesque city in Himalayas.
Omar Abdullah, in the area, said, “This attack is much larger than we have seen for civilians in recent years.” According to the report, there are many injuries and some are serious.
US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ursula von Der Leyen of the EU were one of the world leaders who blamed this attack.
Trump said in a post on the truth society, “The news of being deeply confused in Kashmir. The United States opposes India and terrorism.”
Von der liyen called the Kashmir Death as “Terroric Attack of Evil,” and Putin expressed “sincere mourning” for the result of “cruel crime.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India, who briefly cut his trip to Saudi Arabia, said the perpetrators would “bring them to justice.”
Modi said in a statement on X, “Our resolution to fight terrorism will not be shaken and will be stronger.
Tuesday attacks have been in conflict for three and a half years, especially in that tourists have almost not aimed.
house Amit Shah visited Srinagar, the largest city of Kashmir on Tuesday and held an emergency security meeting.
Manoj Sinha, a local leader of the region, said the army and the police were deployed to the scene.
No group has argued for attack. In recent years, violence has been weakened, but since 1989, rebellion has been in the long term in most Muslims.
This attack was done in Baisaran, a mountain meadow of three miles (5 km) in Pahalgam.
The vehicle could not reach the area where the shooting incident occurred, Jammu’s prosecutor and Kashmir police VIDI Kumar Birdi told the BBC Hindi.
A tourist of Kujarat, a member of the dismissed group, said that after a sudden attack, chaos broke out and everyone started to cry, cry and scream.
Video video shared by Indian media The Indian army seems to show a run toward this attack site, and in other scenes, the victims can say that the gun was not a Muslim.
The video of social media that has not been identified by the BBC appears to show a body lying in the grassland with people who cry and ask for help.
The police said that many tourists were taken to a gunshoted hospital. The area stops and soldiers are stopping the car with checkpoints. The joint search operation of the Indian Army, Jammu and Kashmir Police is in progress.
According to Indian media, several protests were organized on Wednesday.
Since the 1990s, the separatist rebellion against Indian rule in the region has insisted on tens of thousands of lives, including civilians and security forces.
The Himalayas were divided in 1947 with the creation of British independence, partitions and Pakistan.
The two nuclear weapons states have insisted over the region as a whole and have been in conflict with two wars for decades.
About 500,000 Indian soldiers are permanently deployed in the territory.
The government insisted that the security situation has improved and violence has fallen since Modi withdrew its autonomy in 2019.
The last major attack on civilians occurred when nine people were killed and 33 were injured after a fire on a bus that gave birth to Hindu pilgrims in June 2024.
In 2019, in Kashmir, where Indians were administered, they killed at least 46 soldiers with suicide bombings and stimulated India’s air raids on Pakistan’s goals.
Pahalgam is a popular tourist destination in Korea and internationally, and in recent years, the government has attempted to encourage additional tourism in the region.
According to the official figure, about 3.5 million tourists visited Kashmir in 2024.
