Gandhinagar, April 23
Three people, including a man-son duo, from Gujarat have been killed in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam.
The deceased were identified as Sumit Parmar and his son Yatish Parmar from Bhavnagar, and Shailesh Kalathiya from Surat.
Two people from the state were injured in the attack.
The injured have been identified as Dabhi Vinod and Vijay.
The massacre unfolded around 3 p.m. in Baisaran, a scenic meadow often likened to "mini Switzerland".
Eyewitnesses said heavily-armed terrorists emerged from the surrounding ridges, identified non-Muslim tourists by name, and opened fire at close range.
The attack has triggered national outrage, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh condemning the assault and vowing justice.
The strike comes just weeks before the annual Amarnath Yatra.
The attack was claimed by The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot and proxy of the Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
TRF is known to operate under the facade of a "homegrown resistance movement", but Indian intelligence agencies have repeatedly exposed it as a front engineered by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to carry out attacks while maintaining plausible deniability on the international stage.