Pahalgam Terror Attack: Terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir have given India a never-to-be-forgotten pain. This was the biggest terrorist attack in the Kashmir Valley since 2019. It was Tuesday, tourists from the country and abroad were enjoying the weather here, when the whole valley trembled with the sound of gunfire, people started running here and there to save their lives. The terrorists started firing at people after asking their names and checking their IDs.
Pahalgam Terror Attack
So far 26 people have died in this attack. Many people are injured. There is an atmosphere of anger across the country against the incident. Prime Minister Modi is returning to India from Saudi Arabia while Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is returning from her US tour, who will hold a meeting of the Cabinet Committee of Security (CCS). Meanwhile, Home Minister Amit Shah is on alert with the soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir. He is giving instructions for further action.
The list of those killed in this terrorist attack has been released. According to the Times of India, six tourists from Maharashtra have died and four people are seriously injured. Two foreigners are also among those killed in this terrorist attack.
Maharashtra Tourists Among Victims
By 8 pm, information was given about the tourists who died and their states. 6 people from Maharashtra have died in this attack. At the same time, many are injured. Santosh Jagdale and Kaustubh Ganbote of Pune, Dilip Desale, Atul Mone, Hemant Joshi of Panvel (Mumbai) and Sanjay Lele of Kalyan-Dombivali have died in this attack. At the same time, Manik Patel and S Bhalchandra Rao of Panvel are seriously injured, while Jagdale’s wife is also from Pune, who has been injured in this attack.
Apart from this, three members of the Rupchandani family of Nagpur have also been injured. The Times of India has confirmed that two relatives of Mone of Dombivali, Hemant Joshi and Sanjay Lele, have also been killed, all three are between 45 and 50 years of age. They had gone to Kashmir via Ahmedabad on Sunday with nine members of their family.
The terrorists were in police uniforms
During the attack in Pahalgam, the terrorists were wearing fake uniforms, so initially no tourist suspected them. But after a while, when they started firing at Hindu tourists after asking them for their identity, there was a stampede at the spot. The terrorists deliberately targeted those Hindu men who had come with their wives or families. The pictures and videos of this terrorist attack are very horrifying. In this video, the women whose husbands were attacked by the terrorists are seen crying and sobbing.
‘The terrorists were in the uniform of the local police and they were also wearing masks. The attackers targeted only men and especially tried to force the Hindus to recite Kalma. Those who could not recite Kalma were shot.’
SIB employee dies
A central government employee from Hyderabad died in the terrorist attack in Kashmir. Manish Ranjan was working as a section officer in the Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB) office located in Koti. The terrorists shot him in front of his wife and two children. The attackers did not spare the family, but targeted Manish after checking his ID card. Manish, originally from Bihar, was living in Hyderabad due to his job.
More than 60 people from Maharashtra are stranded
People have demanded that the government to evacuate the people stranded in Srinagar. They have requested the officials to evacuate them from there on a priority basis. Most of these people are from the Pune district
