Indian-administered Kashmir<\/a>\u00a0tumbled into a ravine after a suspected shooting attack, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe crash happened on Sunday near Reasi town, in the south of the disputed territory, as the bus was returning from a popular Hindu shrine in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMilitants ambushed the bus and fired at it indiscriminately. The bus fell into a gorge, leading to the death of nine pilgrims, and 33 are injured,\u201d Reasi district\u2019s police chief Mohita Sharma told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She said the rescue operation was completed and the injured were taken to Narayana Hospital and Reasi District Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bus was carrying pilgrims to the base camp of the Hindu temple Mata Vaishno Devi when it came under attack, senior administrative officer Vishesh Mahajan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India\u2019s Opposition Congress party president Mallikarjun Kharge condemned the \u201cgruesome terror attack\u201d in a post on social media platform X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Modi\u2019s \u201cchest-thumping propaganda of bringing peace and normalcy \u2026 rings hollow\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Al Jazeera: At least nine people have been killed and 33 others injured after a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims in\u00a0Indian-administered Kashmir\u00a0tumbled into a ravine after a suspected shooting attack, police said. The crash happened on Sunday near Reasi town, in the south of the disputed territory, as the bus was returning from a popular Hindu shrine in the area. \u201cMilitants ambushed the bus and fired at it indiscriminately. The bus fell into a gorge, leading to the death of nine pilgrims, and 33 are injured,\u201d Reasi district\u2019s police chief Mohita Sharma told reporters. She said the rescue operation was completed… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39941,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39939\/revisions\/39941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}