Attack on tourists in Indian Kashmir kills 26, police say

Twenty-six people were killed and 17 were injured when suspected militants opened fire at tourists in India’s Jammu and Kashmir territory, police said on Wednesday, the worst such attack in the country in nearly two decades.

The attack took place on Tuesday in the popular destination of Pahalgam in the scenic, Himalayan federal territory that has seen a resurgence in mass tourism as insurgent violence waned in recent years.

It was the worst attack on civilians in India since the 2008 Mumbai shootings in which more than 160 people were killed.

Prime minister Narendra Modi cut short his two-day visit to Saudi Arabia and returned to New Delhi on Wednesday morning. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman was also cutting short her visit to the United States and Peru “t...
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