JAMMU: In a rare attack on the Amarnath Yatra, terrorists killed seven pilgrims and injured nine others, including policemen, when they struck at a bus carrying them in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantang district. The militants also carried out two attacks on security forces in the area.


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  • Bus deflected out of security convoy without informing anyone, later attacked by terrorists

  • Pilgrims who lost their lives in Anantnag attack were from Gujarat





  • Police confirms death of seven Amarnath Yatra pilgrims in terror attack in Anantnag, 15 injured: ANI

  • The bus was carrying pilgrims back from Baltal after performing the yatra.

  • A CRPF statement said the bus was not part of the official yatra and not registered with the Amarnath Shrine Board.

  • "Some gunshots were heard on Jammu-Srinagar Highway near Batengoo, two yatris have been killed, four others sustained injuries," a police source said.

  • Senior minister in the Mehbooba Mufti-led government Nayeem Akhtar termed the attack a "dark patch in the history of Kashmir".

  • National Conference leader Omar Abdullah was quick to react and said: "The attack cannot be condemned strongly enough."

  • Abdullah added that such an attack was expected in spite of recent successes against militants by security forces.

  • "The one thing we had all feared this year during the yatra. In spite of recent successes against militants and unprecedented force presence," Omar Abdullah tweeted.

  • Reports from the area said the firing took place near Khanabal chowk and the firing was still on.





  • Terrorists also fired at police party in Anantnag's Bantegoo area.

  • The Amarnath yatra was resumed from Jammu on Sunday after a day-long suspension due to apprehensions of a law-and-order situation in the Kashmir Valley.




Over 1.34 lakh pilgrims have so far paid their obeisance to the ice-lingam of Lord Shiva at the cave shrine at an altitude of 3,888 metres in the south Kashmir Himalayas.

The yatra began in the backdrop of an intelligence warning of a terror attack, which prompted the authorities to mobilise the "highest level" of security measures, including satellite-tracking.

The pilgrimage is scheduled to conclude on the Shravan Purnima (Raksha Bandhan) on August 7.

The cave shrine is located at a distance of 46 kms from Pahalgam and 14 kms from Baltal.

(More details awaited)