Summary
- Worst attack on civilians in India since 2008 Mumbai shootings
- PM Modi, finance minister cut short foreign trips after attack
- Local groups call for shutdown to protest attack on tourists
- Airlines add flights as tourists flee Kashmir
- Pakistan says concerned at loss of lives of tourists
SRINAGAR, India, April 23 – 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 a meadow in the Pahalgam area of the scenic, Himalayan federal territory and the dead included 25 Indians and one Nepalese national, police said.