While Guajarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said he would recommend Salim’s name for bravery awards, the J&K government and Amarnath Shrine Board separately announced rewards totalling Rs 5 lakh.
The international community on Tuesday stood united in condemning the horrific attack on Amarnath Yatra pilgrims.
A day after the attack, India TV travels the route taken by the ill-fated bus to bring you a blow-by-blow account of how and where terror struck, leaving nine pilgrims returning from Amarnath Yatra dead
Terrorists yesterday killed seven Amarnath pilgrims, including six women, and injured 19 others as they fired at a bus in Kashmir's Anantnag district.
Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) President G A Mir strongly condemned the attack and described it as shocking and highly shameful.
The opposition parties, the resolution added, extended their deepest sympathies to families of the victims with whom they stood in this hour of grief.
There was credible intelligence input that militants will attack the tourists visiting the state to take part in the holy yatra during the month of Shravan.
A special plane of Indian Air Force (IAF) carrying bodies of Amarnath Yatra victims and 19 yatris who sustained injuries in the attack landed here. Chief Minister Vijay Rupani was present at the airport to receive them.
Seven pilgrims (six women and a man) were killed and 19 others were injured on Monday when terrorists sprayed bullets at a bus carrying Amarnath pilgrims in Ananatnag district.
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