"Our ticket was for tomorrow, but we are leaving today. We are scared, I am with family, I just want us to return home soon," the Jharkhand tourist said.
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.
"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 thing is that there is a lot of injustice in the world, this is the rude face, where the people who do not want to fight, just came for seeing the place, it is a shameless act to attack them, it is a crime. However much this (terror attack) is resisted against is less," he told ANI.
All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) member Maulana Khalid Rasheed of Farangi Mahali on Monday strongly condemned the killings of tourists in the Pahalgam terrorist attack, which has caused a stir across the country, and demanded punishment for those involved in the killings while
"This is a very sad incident. In the last three months, more than five lakh tourists have visited Kashmir. If we look at all these issues, the situation in Kashmir was very well managed, but this cowardly act by Pakistan is intolerable," Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Gupta told ANI.
Karnataka Minister Santosh Lad arrived in Srinagar to coordinate on behalf of the Siddaramaiah government. The ministers and officials from other states were also seen on the field.
Continuing its crackdown against the cross-border smuggling attempts, vigilant BSF troops on Tuesday recovered a Pakistani drone and two heroin consignments in two separate operations from the border areas of Amritsar and Gurdaspur districts.
Terrorists opened fire in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, injuring civilians. Police and security forces arrived at the site immediately, and ambulances were dispatched. The area has been cordoned off, and a search operation is underway.
In a major crackdown on cross-border narco-trafficking, Border Security Force (BSF) troops, in coordination with Punjab Police, recovered four Pakistani drones and significant quantities of suspected heroin from border areas of Amritsar and Tarn Taran districts, said officials on Monday.
" Operation was started last night...around 5:30 am, security forces had a face-off with naxals and 8 naxals were killed in the encounter. 14 weapons were recovered through this operation...operation is still underway...this is the first time in the history of Jharkhand, security forces w
Security forces on Monday successfully destroyed a high explosive mortar shell that was recovered in Manyal village of Thanamandi area in Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir.