'Like A Storm': Witnesses Describe Deadly Kashmir Attack

Source: International Business Times

Paramedics assist an injured tourist at a hospital in Anantnag, south of Srinagar AFP Men were methodically targeted on Tuesday in Indian-administered Kashmir when gunmen opened fire on tourists, an eyewitness told AFP, in the worst attack on civilians in years. At least 24 people were killed in the attack that happened in the summer retreat of Pahalgam, which lies about 90 kilometres (55 miles) by road from the key city of Srinagar, a senior police official told AFP. "I cannot say how many, but the militants came out of the forest near an open small meadow and started firing," an eyewitness, who provides ponies for tourists, told AFP.