In Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam district, militants opened fire at a group of tourists on Tuesday. As per reports, several gunshots were heard in Baisaran Valley in the area.
With the death toll yet to be ascertained from the 2025 Pahalgam attack, ground reports from the scene suggest that many have been killed.
In Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam district, militants opened fire at a group of tourists on Tuesday. As per reports, several gunshots were heard in Baisaran Valley in the area.
With the death toll yet to be ascertained, ground reports from the scene suggest that many have been killed. As per The Indian Express, at least 20 people have been killed.
As we wait for the official numbers from government officials, many have recalled the massacre at Amarnath massacre of August 2000.
The Amarnath massacre of 2000 was a coordinated terror attack which took place across three days - from August 1 to 3, in five different places. While official counts state at least 89 people were killed, PTI reported 105 people were declared dead due to the attack by Islamist militants in the Anantnag district of Doda.
On August 2, militants from Hizbul Mujahideen, massacred 32 people at the Nunwan base camp in Pahalgam. This toll included 21 Hindu pilgrims, seven Muslim shopkeepers and three security officials.
The terror attack took place while the pilgrims were on their way for the Amarnath Yatra.
This attack on the Amarnath Yatra was part of a larger attack across the district.
27 civilians migrant labourers were killed in a simultaneous attack in Anantnag district's Mirbazar-Qazigund and Sandoo-Acchabal.
In another attack, 11 people were killed in remote village in Doda.
The fourth attack took place in a village in Kupwara, where militants killed seven family members of a militant who surrendered.
The last attack was in Kayar village in Doda where at least eight unarmed civilians were killed after militants ambushed a group of Village Defence Committee patrol party members.
Following the attack, then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee blamed Pakistan for the attack as part of an attempt to disrupt peace and democracy in Kashmir.
This is not the first attack on pilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir. In 2000, another massacre occurred in Chittisinghpura in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir. The attack resulted in the mass murder of 35 Sikh villagers in the area.
The attack also took place on the eve of the then-US president Bill Clinton's state visit to India. Clinton's 2000 visit was for the first visit by the US president to India in 22 years.
In 2001, a grenade was hurled at a camp of pilgrims at Sheshnag, killing at least 13 people, including three women.
In 2002, 11 people were killed in a terror attack by al-Mansuriyan, a front group for the government-designated terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba. The attack occurred at the Nunwan base camp at Pahalgam.
In 2003, 24 Hindu Kashmiri Pandits were killed in the village of Nadimarg in Pulwama District of Jammu and Kashmir by Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists
In 2017, eight pilgrims, of whom seven were women, were killed in a terror attack while they were en route to the Amarnath Yatra.
In 2024, a militant attack occurred on in the Reasi district of the Jammu division, resulting in the death of nine people. Several unidentified militants opened fire on a passenger bus transporting Hindu pilgrims from the Shiv Khori cave to Katra, causing the bus to lose control and fall into a deep gorge.