Attack on tourists in Kashmir kills 25 Indians and 1 Nepalese

Worst attack on civilians since 2008 Mumbai shootings

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Indian police officers stand guard at a checkpoint following a suspected militant attack, near Pahalgam in south Kashmir's Anantnag district. © Reuters

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) -- Twenty-six people were killed and 17 injured when suspected militants opened fire at tourists in India's Jammu and Kashmir territory, police said on Wednesday, the worst such attack in the country in nearly two decades.

The attack took place on Tuesday in the popular destination of Pahalgam in the scenic Himalayan federal territory that has seen a resurgence in mass tourism as insurgent violence waned in recent years.

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