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2001 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre information


2001 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre
LocationSheshnag Lake, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Date20 July 2001
TargetKashmiri Hindus
Attack type
Mass murder
MotiveIslamist Terrorism


On 20 July 2001, in the month of Shraavana, 13 people were killed and 15 other injured in a terror attack on a pilgrim night camp at Sheshnag Lake near the Amarnath Temple glacial cave shrine in Kashmir Valley in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, in two explosions and firing by militants.[1][2][3] In a pre-dawn attack, terrorists penetrated several layers of security cordon and exploded two improvised explosive devices (lEDs), casualties included 8 Hindu civilian pilgrims entailing 2 women, and 3 Muslim civilians and 2 security personnel.[4]

  1. ^ "Amarnath Yatra devotees have faced repeated terror attacks: Here's the blood-soaked history of pilgrimage", First Post, 11 July 2017.
  2. ^ Vicky Nanjappa, Amarnath yatra has been attacked thrice in the past, One India News. 11 July 2017.
  3. ^ 6 pilgrims among 13 killed in 2 blasts, The Tribune, 11 July 2017.
  4. ^ 2001, Kashmir, Data India, Issues 27-52, pp.650.]

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