India mourns Bharat will not bend to terror, says Shah

 

 

FOLLOWING the brutal terror attack in Pahalgam on tourists; entire country along with families, friends and neighbours of the victims mourned their loss, and strongly condemned the attack. Union Home Minister Amit Shah laid wreaths on the bodies of 26 people killed in the attack and assured the survivors that the perpetrators of the dastardly act would be brought to justice, officials said. Shah laid the wreaths on the coffins of the victims of the terror attack at the Police Control Room in Srinagar. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah also paid their tributes to the victims, the officials said. The Home Minister later interacted with families of the slain persons and other survivors of the attack. He assured them that the Security Forces would leave no stone unturned to bring the perpetrators of the deadly attack to the book, the officials said. Earlier, the bodies of victims killed in the gruesome terror attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam on Tuesday were brought here.

 

The Home Minister later asserted that the country will not bend to terror and that those responsible for the killing of tourists at Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir will not be spared. After laying wreaths on the bodies of those killed in the terror attack, he said on X, “With a heavy heart, paid last respects to the deceased of the Pahalgam terror attack. “Bharat will not bend to terror. The culprits of this dastardly terror attack will not be spared,” he said. Shah also visited Baisaran meadows, the scene of gruesome killing of 26 tourists in Pahalgam. Shah reached the Baisaran meadows in a helicopter and was given a briefing by security officials. The home minister was told about the sequence of events and the possible routes the terrorists took to reach the popular tourist spot, which is surrounded by thick pine forests, sources said. Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police Nalin Prabhat and GoC of the Army’s 15 Corps Lieutenant General Prashant Srivastava were among the senior officers who were present at the site, which is around 110 km from Srinagar. Shah also took an aerial view of the area.

 

Later, in another post, the Home Minister said every Indian feels the pain of those who lost their loved ones in the terrorist attack and that words cannot express this sadness. “I assure all these families and the whole country that these terrorists killing innocent people will not be spared,” he said. Shah arrived in Srinagar within hours of the attack on Tuesday night and was briefed about the situation by Director General of Police Nalin Prabhat. The Home Minister also chaired a security review meeting, which was also attended by the Lieutenant Governor.

 

NIA TEAM REACHES TERROR-HIT PAHALGAM: A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) led by an Inspector General on Wednesday reached terror-hit Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said. The team would provide assistance to the local police probing Tuesday’s dastardly terrorist attack in which 26 people, mostly tourists from different parts of the country, were killed in cold blood, the sources said. The anti-terror agency’s team visited the Baisaran meadow near Pahalgam, the spot of Tuesday’s deadly terrorist strike, they said. The Resistance Front (TRF), a shadow outfit of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group, claimed responsibility for the attack.