Moment smiling tourist ziplines over valley unaware of Kashmir terror atrocity unfolding below that left 26 dead
Watch the moment a tourist rides a zipline over a valley blissfully unaware of the horror attack unfolding beneath his feet in Kashmir.
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In the clip, the man could be seen zipping down the line with a huge grin on his face.
But it came as at least 26 tourists were killed down below in the Indian region of Kashmir, with dozens more wounded in a terror attack last week.
At least three dozen people were wounded, many of them seriously, according to two senior police officers."This attack is much larger than anything we've seen directed at civilians in recent years," Omar Abdullah, the region's top elected official, wrote on social media.
The two officers said at least four militants fired at dozens of tourists from close range.
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Most of the killed tourists were Indian, they said, speaking on condition of anonymity in keeping with departmental policy.At least 24 bodies were collected in the aftermath of the attack, and two people died while being taken for medical treatment.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Police and soldiers are now searching for the attackers."We will come down heavily on the perpetrators with the harshest consequences," India's home minister, Amit Shah, wrote on social media.
He arrived in Srinagar, the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir, and convened a meeting with top security officials.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was cutting short his two-day visit to Saudi Arabia and returning to New Delhi early on Wednesday, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned the attack and stressed that "attacks against civilians are unacceptable under any circumstances", UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.