According to sources, top officers have rushed to the affected areas, with local security forces in alert and additional troops are being inducted in the area to carry out the search and destroy operations to nab the terrorists responsible for the attack.
Doda SSP Sandeep Mehta on Wednesday informed that, since the recent terrorist attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, the security in the region is tight.
Congress MP KC Venugopal on Wednesday reached Srinagar to pay homage to the victims of the Pahalgam terrorist attack, calling it a "shocking and condemnable incident."
In the aftermath of the tragic terror attack in Pahalgam that claimed the lives of innocent tourists on Tuesday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday met the families of the victims outside the Police Control Room in Srinagar.
"The attack on innocent tourists in Pahalgam by the terrorists is a grave and inhuman incident, which should be condemned by all the sections of the society. Terror activities in J&K have already come to zero. This incident definitely has a foreign hand behind it," Rao told ANI.
The DGP has ordered close monitoring of rail, road, and air traffic in view of any suspicious foreign activity. Security has been tightened in areas bordering Nepal, as well as at bus and railway stations.
JanaSena Party President Pawan Kalyan on Wednesday announced a three-day mourning period following the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Baisaran area that claimed 28 lives, according to an official statement.
PoJK political activist Amjad Ayub Mirza, speaking from Glasgow, condemned the Pahalgam terror attack, blaming Pakistan Army and ISI for orchestrating the violence. He called for decisive action beyond internal security, urging strikes on terror launchpads in PoJK.
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Konda Vishweshwar Reddy on Wednesday strongly condemned the recent terrorist attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir.
The Civil Aviation Ministry on Tuesday stated that it has arranged four additional flights from Kashmir - two each to Delhi and Mumbai - on Wednesday for the safe transfer of tourists from the region following the gruesome terrorist attack in Kashmir's Pahalgam yesterday.
According to the Raipur Collector, first the bodies will be transported to the national capital, with the efforts on to ensure that the families of the victims are able to come back together, looking at the security situation in the region.