Rage and grief after 26 killed

The Indian Naval Officer on the Honey Moon, a tourist guide that was the only breadwinner for his family, and a businessman who rested with his wife and children became among the victims of a horrific attack, which killed 26 people in Kashmir with Indian introduction.

A group of militants opened fire on Tuesday at tourists at a resort in a funeral, a picturesque city in Himalaya, often called “Switzerland of India”.

Visitors from different states of India were killed, others were seriously injured – there is no official confirmation by the government.

The attack was one of the most deadly in recent years in the problem region, and it has destroyed many life.

The attack took place on Tuesday afternoon. Eyewitnesses reported the BBC that tourists gathered in the basses, the mountain upper meadow in 5 km (three miles) from the funeral fever when they heard the sound of bullets that break through the air.

They began to run for cover, and in chaos some were injured or separated from their groups.

The guilt of the Boha, who broke his hand when he tried to escape, said the BBC Hindi, which was bewildered everywhere. The children could hear screaming, and no one knew what was going on, he said.

A noun whose spouse of Satpath was killed as a result of the attack, said The Indian Express newspaper that he was hit by a bullet when they were leaving the rope.

JS Chandramouli, a retired banker who traveled to Kashmir with his wife and four others, parted with his group, and a few hours later his bullet body was found, the newspaper reports.

Most of the victims were Hindu people.

Some eyewitnesses said that it seemed that militants focused on non -Muslims, but others described the shooting as accidental. Local Muslims was among the victims.

The Indian government did not give official accounting whether people were aimed at religion.

The Hymanashi, who was on the honeymoon with his husband, guilty of Narwal, an Indian military officer, can be heard in a video in the video that has now become viral that one of the attackers asked her husband if he was a Muslim.

“When he said” no “, the man shot him,” she said.

The couple married last week, April 16. On Wednesday, Himanshi said goodbye to her husband as he lay in a coffin dropped from the Indian flag.

“He was a better man. I pray that his soul is calmed down in the world, and he has a better life wherever he is,” she said.

The grandfather of Vana, Hava Singh, Narval, told the BBC Punjabi that his grandson initially wanted to go to Switzerland for the honeymoon.

“But he didn’t get the visas,” he said.

Osavari, daughter of Santash Jagdale – a businessman from Maharashtra – told PTI that the militants asked her father to read an Islamic poem.

“If he failed to do so, they burned three bullets, one in the head, one by the ear and the other in the back,” she said.

She added that the attackers also killed the uncle standing next to her.

Half, whose husband was killed by Mandjunz Rao’s husband, told reporters that when she collided with the attackers and asked them to shoot, one of them said, “I will not kill you. Tell this (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi.”

The tragedy was torn apart by families, as well as the households in the mountain.

When they talk to journalists, many relatives split into tears.

Said Hussein’s mother, a local man who took tourists on horseback rides to earn a living and died as a result of the attack, Ani said that her son was the only breadwinner of the family.

She was inconsistent when journalists asked her about her son. The reports state that hundreds of people were present at the funeral of Shah, including Jammu and Chief Minister Kashmir Omar, who detach Reporters who were killed by trying to stop the attackers.

In the western state of Maharashtra, the family struggles to reconcile with the sudden loss of its three members.

Atuli Mon, Sanji Lel and Hemant Josh, cousins ​​who went to Kashmir with six other family members were killed by militants.

“We learned last night (about their death). The family is shocked,” said the BBC Marathi relative.

A cheeky attack in one of the most popular tourist destinations shocked India and was convicted by leaders around the world. People across India protested.

In Kashmir, locals closed markets, enterprises and schools on Wednesday to protest the attack. Some locals said the BBC that they were afraid that tourists would be afraid by causing irreparable damage to their business and the Kashmir economy.

There is a terrible silence in areas that once crashed with tourist activities.

More than 24 hours have passed since the atrocity, and the victims are still fighting to reconcile with what happened. A huge driving of militants suspected of killing.

Narendra Modi Prime Minister reduced a foreign trip to return to Delhi for negotiations with security chiefs and other officials.

“Those who respond and behind such an act will soon hear our answer, loud and understandable,” said Defense Minister Rinat Singh. “We will get not only those who have committed this incident, but also those who, sitting behind the scenes, were able to take such actions on the soil of India.”

India will not yet say who thinks the killings. But after previous attacks, he launched cross -border strikes, guilty of militants who say they are supported by Pakistan, who denies the charge.

Observers say there is now a risk of fresh hostilities between nuclear armed neighbors when India takes a similar course of action.

Hava Singh Narwal says he is full of anger and sadness and wants a “exemplary” for the attackers.

“Today I lost my grandson. Tomorrow someone else will lose my (if such attacks do not stop),” he said BBC Punjabi.

Jigin report from BBBBC Thrid Majhan