Agencies find RPG shells made in Pak at attack site in Gulmarg

According to sources, aggregate cardinal agencies, including the National Investigation Agency, visited the spot aft the onslaught and recovered that the militants had tried to usage RPGs that were made successful Pakistan but had misfired.

“After visiting the spot, they (the agencies) recovered that the militants fired blase weapons arsenic good arsenic RPGs that had misfired,” a root said.

The root besides said that a fig of section residents were questioned by cardinal agencies and the section constabulary successful an effort to get much accusation connected the attackers. “Prima facie, it appears that they (the militants) were alert astir the question of the Army conveyance and had besides conducted recce with the assistance of a section idiosyncratic earlier carrying retired the attack,” the root said.

A time aft the attack, the Defence spokesperson successful Srinagar said it was carried retired by “Pakistani terrorists, with a presumption to disrupt bid and stableness successful Kashmir”.

The onslaught came conscionable days aft 7 employees of a operation institution progressive successful gathering a passageway successful J&K’s Ganderbal territory were killed connected October 20 erstwhile gunmen opened occurrence indiscriminately astatine a campy acceptable up for the employees.

Following the Gulmarg attack, J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah expressed interest astir the spate of attacks, saying successful a station connected X: “…This caller spate of attacks successful Kashmir is simply a substance of superior concern. I condemn this onslaught successful the strongest imaginable presumption and nonstop my condolences to the loved ones of the people, who mislaid their lives.”

J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, who spoke to apical officers successful the Army, the J&K Police, and the UT medication aft the attack, called for a “swift and befitting reply to neutralise terrorists”.