{"id":56624,"date":"2025-04-24T23:26:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=56624"},"modified":"2025-04-24T23:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:56:52","slug":"at-least-26-killed-as-gunmen-open-fire-on-tourists-inkashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/56624\/at-least-26-killed-as-gunmen-open-fire-on-tourists-inkashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"At least \u06f2\u06f6 killed as gunmen open fire on tourists inKashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Police said multiple tourists received gunshot wounds in the \u201cterror attack\u201d on Tuesday while they were visiting Baisaran meadow, about 5km (3 miles) from the disputed region\u2019s resort town of Pahalgam, Aljazeera reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis attack is much larger than anything we\u2019ve seen directed at civilians in recent years,\u201d Chief Minister\u00a0Omar Abdullah, the region\u2019s top elected official, wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Indian police told the Associated Press news agency that at least 26 people were killed and 17 wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>A little-known group, Kashmir Resistance, claimed responsibility for the attack in a social media message. It expressed discontent that more than 85,000 \u201coutsiders\u201d had been settled in the region, spurring what it called a \u201cdemographic change\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Indian security agencies say Kashmir Resistance is a front for Pakistan-based armed organisations such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen, which fight Indian rule in Kashmir. Pakistan has said it only provides moral and diplomatic support.<\/p>\n<p>RHM\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police said multiple tourists received gunshot wounds in the \u201cterror attack\u201d on Tuesday while they were visiting Baisaran meadow, about 5km (3 miles) from the disputed region\u2019s resort town of Pahalgam, Aljazeera reports. \u201cThis attack is much larger than anything we\u2019ve seen directed at civilians in recent years,\u201d Chief Minister\u00a0Omar Abdullah, the region\u2019s top elected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7100,7103,7110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-en","category-accidents-en","category-politic-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}