{"id":13365,"date":"2025-04-23T06:35:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13365"},"modified":"2025-04-23T06:35:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:35:21","slug":"indian-police-say-gunmen-kill-at-least-20-tourists-at-a-kashmir-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13365","title":{"rendered":"Indian police say gunmen kill at least 20 tourists at a Kashmir resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-slot text-block free-body\">\n<p class=\"content-item\">Gunmen shot dead at least 20 tourists at a resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police say, in what appeared to be a major shift in the regional conflict in which tourists have largely been spared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-item\">Police described the incident as a \u201cterror attack\u201d and blamed militants fighting against Indian rule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-item\">\u201cThis attack is much larger than anything we\u2019ve seen directed at civilians in recent years,\u201d Omar Abdullah, the region\u2019s top elected official, wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-item\">Two senior police officers said at least four gunmen, whom they described as militants, fired at dozens of tourists from close range. The officers said at least three dozen others were injured, many in serious condition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-slot text-block free-body\">\n<div id=\"piano-article-loginwall\">Most of the tourists killed were Indian, the officers said, speaking on condition of anonymity in keeping with departmental policy. Officials collected at least 20 bodies in Baisaran meadow, some five kilometres from the disputed region\u2019s resort town of Pahalgam.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-slot text-block paywall-init paywall restricted-body\">\n<p class=\"content-item\">There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Police and soldiers were searching for the attackers.<\/p>\n<p>STUFF NZ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunmen shot dead at least 20 tourists at a resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police say, in what appeared to be a major shift in the regional conflict in which tourists have largely been spared. Police described the incident as a \u201cterror attack\u201d and blamed militants fighting against Indian rule. \u201cThis attack is much larger than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13367,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13365\/revisions\/13367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}