Amarnath Yatra bus attack details
Written by : IANS | Sun, Jul 16, 2017, 03:06 PM
Srinagar, July 16: The deaths in the July 10 terror attack on an Amarnath Yatra bus rose to eight on Sunday after an injured pilgrim died in a Srinagar hospital, the police here said.
Lalita Ben was admitted to the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura in Srinagar, a police official said.
The unescorted bus from Gujarat came under attack in Batengo area of Anantnag district on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway. The attack left 18 others injured.
Eleven Amarnath pilgrims were killed and 30 others injured on Sunday when a bus carrying them plunged into a gorge near Banihal town in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district.
Police sources said the bus carrying the pilgrims from Jammu to Srinagar spun out of the driver's control at Nachnala and rolled into the gorge.
The passengers traveling in the bus were not registered with the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB), nor was the bus part of the escorted Yatra convoy.
The state police said the attack was carried out by the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
"Eleven pilgrims have died," a police officer told IANS. "Rescue operations are on."
Police said the accident occurred at 1.45 p.m.