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Indian authorities have identified three suspects who attacked tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir. Indian officials have also prepared sketches of three suspects with the help of those who managed to survive the incident.
The attackers were identified as Asif Fauzi, Sulaiman Shah and Abu Talha, the PTI news agency reported citing officials. According to PTI, their surnames are Musa, Yunus and Asif .
27 people including Sudeep Neupane from Butwal were killed in a terrorist attack on Tuesday in Pahalgam of Jammu and Kashmir. Among those killed and bitten Adhkeri Udhwani Kumar is a citizen of the United Arab Emirates . The other dead are tourists from the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Odisha.
According to Indian media, the terrorists opened fire after asking the name of the tourists. It is said that the attacker asked Subham Dwivedi from Uttar Pradesh for their name and then opened fire. After that, Indian media reported that other tourists were also shot at.
It is said that the attackers crossed the border from Kishtwar in Jammu and reached Baisran via Kokarnag in South Kashmir. According to the Indian authorities, their search operation has been intensified . The Resistance Front (TRF), a shadow organization of the banned Pakistani insurgent group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), claimed responsibility for the attack.
This is the biggest attack in Jammu and Kashmir after the 2019 Pulwama attack. At that time 40 CRPF jawans were killed. After the Pahalgam attack, high alert has been adopted in other cities of India as well.
After the attack, Indian Union Home Minister Amit Shah inspected the scene. Shah, who reached Kashmir's largest city Srinagar on Tuesday, held an emergency meeting on the security situation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is in Saudi Arabia, has also returned to India on Wednesday morning after cutting short his visit. Modi has strongly condemned the attack on social media 'X'. "Our resolve against terrorism is unwavering and will only grow stronger," he wrote.
World leaders including US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have condemned the incident.
